Einleitung, Motivation und Aufbau -- Institutionelle Grundlagen -- Überblick über die Literatur zu Aktienrückkäufen -- Datenbasis und Methodik der eigenen empirischen Untersuchungen -- Ergebnisse und Interpretation der eigenen empirischen Untersuchungen -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick --...

The trading of securities on multiple markets raises the question of each market's share in the discovery of the informationally efficient price. We exploit salient distributional features of multivariate financial price processes to uniquely determine these contributions. Thereby we resolve the...

The finance industry has grown. Financial markets have become more liquid. Information technology has improved. But have prices become more informative? Using stock and bond prices to forecast earnings, we find that the information content of market prices has not increased since 1960. The...