Empirical capital-market studies on share sensitivity to interest rates – especially referring to financial service companies – regularly draw on variations of a two-factor regression model that explains returns on shares using a market and an interest-rate factor. In the literature, this...

This paper presents the first analysis of open-end leverage certificates on the German market. The major innovations of these certificates are twofold. First, issuers announce a price-setting formula according to which they are willing to buy and sell the certificates over time. Second, the...