Abstract: Die ökonomische Analyse der Vermögensverwaltung von deutschen Stiftungen ist ein noch wenig erforschtes Gebiet. Im Gegensatz zu den zahlreichen juristischen Studien haben finanzwirtschaftliche Untersuchungen noch immer Seltenheitswert. Die folgende Studie versucht dazu beizutragen,...

This study focuses on the diversification benefits of the most developed equity markets of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). To evaluate these benefits of diversification we use so-called spanning tests based on a stochastic discount factor approach and estimated by General Methods of Moments...

We study the performance of conditional asset pricing models in explaining the German cross-section of stock returns. Our test assets are portfolios sorted by size and book-to-market as in the paper by Fama and French (1993). Our results show that the empirical performance of the Capital Asset...