Mit der Analyse des Investitionsverhaltens US-amerikanischer Großunternehmen beleuchtet Charlotte L. Schuster die Praxis von Managern, langfristige für kurzfristige Ziele zu opfern. Damit greift sie ein Thema auf, das in Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft zunehmend als Problem wahrgenommen wird, v.a....

We use a unique set of equities in the when-issued market to provide new tests of the law of one price in financial markets. We compare the prices of when-issued and regular-way shares of publicly-traded subsidiaries and their parents around the time the subsidiaries are fully divested. In...

We study why a majority of trades still happen during the pit hours, i.e. when the trading pit is open, even after the pit ceased to be a liquid and informative venue. We investigate the case of 30-year U.S. Treasury futures using a ten-years-long intraday data set which contains the...

The share of market making conducted by high-frequency trading (HFT) firms has been rising steadily. A distinguishing feature of HFTs is that they trade intraday, ending the day flat. To shed light on the economics of HFTs, and in a departure from existing market-making theories, we model an HFT...