The papers included in this e-book cover a broad range of contemporary issues in Chinese corporate financial management and therefore provide our readers with important insights into Chinese financial markets and the social and economic consequences of firm behavior in the Chinese context

We formalize the idea that the financial sector can be a source of non-fundamental risk. Households' desire to hedge against price volatility can generate price volatility in equilibrium, even absent fundamental risk. Fearing that asset prices may fall, risk-averse households demand safe assets...

Historischer Überblick der Betrachtungsweise des Kapitalmarktes -- Bisherige Erkenntnisse und Modelle zur evolutorischen Finanzökonomie -- Relevanz weiterer biologischer und darwinistischer Konzepte zur Erklärung des Kapitalmarktverhaltens.