The paper presents a comprehensive data set of all bonds issued by the sixteenGerman states (Länder) since 1992. It thus provides a complete picture of acapital market comparable in size to funds raised in the German fixed incomemarket for corporations. The quantitative analysis reveals that...

This paper questions traditional approaches for testing the day-of-the-week effect on stock returns. We propose an alternative approach based on the closure test principle introduced by Marcus, Peritz and Gabriel (1976), which has become very popular in Biometrics and Medical Statistics. We test...

In der Theorie der Unternehmensbewertung gibt es ein Problem, das die Literatur unter dem Etikett der Anschlussverzinsung diskutiert. Damit habe ich mich am 13. Februar 2009 in meiner Abschiedsvorlesung auseinandergesetzt. Das hier vorliegende Essay stellt eine überarbeitete Fassung dieser...