Investor confidence is a necessary condition for the development of emerging markets. Investors recognize that since market-oriented reform policies may be reversed or hindered, they face the risk of ex post policy changes with redistributive impact on investment returns. We argue that a...

Vorliegendes Manuskript stellt einen überarbeiteten Auszug aus der Diplomarbeit "Empirische Untersuchungen zum Aktien- und Rentenresearch bei Banken in Deutschland" dar, die im Juli 1992 fertiggestellt wurde.

Immobilienaktien können Anleger nicht vor der allgemeinen Geldentwertung schützen. Ebenso wie andere Aktien bieten sie keinen effektiven Schutz vor Inflation. Stattdessen zeigen Regressionsanalysen negative Korrelationen an. Ein steigendes Preisniveau wirkt sich somit negativ auf die Renditen...

Ziel der Diplomarbeit ist es, aufzuzeigen, welche Einflussfaktoren auf den Kapitalanleger aus ökonomischer, soziologischer und psychologischer einwirken. Unter diesen Gesichtspunkten wird der Wandel des Anlageverhaltens eines Individuums in seinem fortschreitenden Lebenszyklus betrachtet.Durch...

Is real investment fully determined by fundamentals or is it sometimes affected by stock market misvaluation? We introduce three new tests that: measure the reaction of investment to sales shocks for firms that may be overvalued; use Fama-MacBeth regressions to determine whether overinvestment...

Previous literature concludes that replacing wage taxation by taxes on a fixed factor or its rents benefits future generations. However, the effects of such steady-state gains on the transition generations have been left open. In this paper, we show that taxation of rents may also increase...

We explore the link between portfolio home bias and consumption risk sharing among Italian regions using aggregated household level information on consumption, income and portfolio holdings. We propose to use data on equity fund ownership to proxy for regional home bias: equity funds are...

We analyze the effects of socially responsible investment and public abatement on environmental quality and the economy in a continuous-time dynamic growth model featuring optimizing households and firms. Environmental quality is modelled as a renewable resource. Consumers can invest in...

This paper examines the implications of segmented assets markets for the real and nominal effects of monetary policy. I develop a model, in which varieties of consumption bundles are purchased sequentially. Newly injected money thus disseminates slowly through the economy via second-round...

The utility-maximizing consumption and investment strategy of an individual investor receiving an unspanned labor income stream seems impossible to find in closed form and very difficult to find using numerical solution techniques. We suggest an easy procedure for finding a specific, simple, and...