If the technological revolution which has taken place over the past decades has lowered information costs and if information costs increase in distance, distance should - ceteris paribus - become less important in determining international bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and...

Although domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the financial services industry have increased steadily over the past two decades, international M&As were relatively rare until recently. This paper uses a novel dataset of over 2,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse...

Anspruchsvoller Titel des emeritierten Professors an der Uni Innsbruck (u.a. Financial Economics, Finanzanalyse). Schredelseker bietet Ergebnisse aus der Kapitalmarktforschung anschaulich und präzise abgeleitet dar mit dem Ziel, Anlegern ein tieferes Verständnis des Finanzmarkts zu vermitteln....