This paper puts focus on the hazard function of inter-trade durations to characterize the intraday trading process. It sheds light on the time varying trade intensity and, thus, on the liquidity of an asset and the informations channels which propagate price signals among asymmetrically informed...

In the framework of small-scale agent-based financial market models, the paper starts out from the concept of structural stochastic volatility, which derives from different noise levels in the demand of fundamentalists and chartists and the time-varying market shares of the two groups. It...

Unternehmen halten durchschnittlich immer höhere Liquiditätsreserven. Der nicht betriebsnotwendige Teil dieser Reserven stellt Überschussliquidität dar, deren Verwendung dem diskretionären Entscheidungsspielraum des Managements unterliegt. Überschussliquidität erhöht zum einen die...