This paper presents an analysis of tax clientele effects in the German government bond market from the viewpoint of private investors. The methods developed here allow the identification of bonds that are over-valued from the viewpoint of a certain tax class, the estimation of tax-specific term...

We present an analysis of VaR forecasts and P&L-series of all 13 German banks that used internal models for regulatory purposes in the year 2001. To this end, we introduce the notion of well-behaved forecast systems. Furthermore, we provide a series of statistical tools to perform our analyses....

According to the Sharpe-Lintner capital asset pricing model, expected rates of return on individual stocks differ only because of their different levels of non-diversifiable risk (beta). However, Fama/French (1992) show that the two variables size and book-to-market ratio capture the...

Seit seiner Einführung im Jahre 1988 hat sich der DAX zum wichtigsten Indikator für die Performance deutscher Aktien entwikkelt. Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Ergebnisse einer Rückberechnung des DAX für den Zeitraum von Januar 1955 bis Dezember 1987 vorgestellt und die damit verbundenen...