Poverty remains a pressing problem in rural areas of the developing world. This is also true for India. Expanding the rural financial system with a focus on increasing access to credit has been an important approach for poverty alleviation in India. Nevertheless, there is empirical evidence and...

Der erste umfassende Report über die Machtverhältnisse im globalen Kapitalismus Sie heißen Larry Fink, Stephen Schwarzman oder Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Saud Al-Thani. Mit ihren Billionen schweren Fonds legen Blackrock, Blackstone oder Qatar Investment mehr Geld an als Deutschland...

This thesis contains three papers. Each paper addresses a distinct research question and is implemented on a separate dataset. The first paper concludes that daytime auctions, together with market opening and closing intervals, contribute to the periodicity of the cross-section of stock returns....