We consider a model of active asset management in which mutual fund managers exert unobservable effort to earn excess returns. Investors allocate capital to both actively managed funds and passively managed products (e.g., index funds or ETFs). In the model's equilibrium, investors are...

Im Jahr 2004 wurde erstmals Mezzanine-Kapital in Form von Genussscheinen verbrieft und an mittelständische Unternehmen vergeben. Viele Mittelständler nahmen, durch ihre Wachstumspläne beflügelt, das als wirtschaftliches Eigenkapital zählende Mez-zanine-Kapital zu sehr günstigen Konditionen...

Since the global financial crisis and the related restructuring of banking systems, bank concentration is on the rise in many countries. Consequently, bank size and its role for macroeconomic volatility (or: stability) is the subject of intense debate. This paper analyzes the effects of...

We consider the finite-time optimal portfolio liquidation problem for a von Neumann-Morgenstern investor with constant absolute risk aversion (CARA). As underlying market impact model, we use the continuous-time liquidity model of Almgren and Chriss (2000). We show that the expected utility of...

We consider an investor whose objective is to trade off tail risk and expected growth of the investment. We measure tail risk through portfolio's expected losses conditioned on the occurrence of a systemic event: financial market loss being exactly at, or at least at, its VaR level and...

This paper tests whether mutual funds on aggregate matter for the equilibrium stock returns due to (i) uncertain fund flows, which directly affect fund size and managers' income; and (ii) time-varying liquidity costs of assets. I find the aggregate shocks to fund flows enter the pricing kernel in...

Non-deal roadshows (NDRs) are private meetings between management and institutional investors, typically organized by analysts. We find that around NDRs, local institutional investors trade heavily and profitably, while retail trading is significantly less informative. Analysts who sponsor NDRs...

Management companies assign some portfolio managers to run funds within a single investment objective, specialists, and others to run funds across several investment objectives, generalists. Our results show that funds achieve higher performance when they appoint superior pickers as specialists...

This study analyses the level of systematic risk for US mortgage portfolio securitisationsbased on the variation of default rates which cannot be explained by observeddeterministic factors. Systematic risk is decomposed into general systemic risk, ratingclass-specific systematic risk and their...