[...]This article describes the U.S. experience with inflationindexeddebt, including the evolution of activity in the TIISmarket since its inception and the valuation of those securitiesrelative to nominal Treasury issues. We show that despite thepotential appeal of TIIS, their yields have been...

[...]We begin with an overview of the topic of corporategovernance and proceed to a discussion of the particularcorporate governance problems of banks. We embrace the viewthat a corporation is best defined as a complex web or “nexus”of contractual relationships among the various claimants to...

This paper has shown that some of the principal arguments against shareholder voice areunfounded. It has shown that shareholders do own corporations, and that the nature of their propertyinterest is structured to meet the needs of the relationships found in stock corporations. The paper...

We develop a stylized model of economic growth with bubbles. In this model, financial frictions leadto equilibrium dispersion in the rates of return to investment. During bubbly episodes, unproductiveinvestors demand bubbles while productive investors supply them. Because of this, bubbly...

Financial Engineering war gestern. Mit steigendem Renditedruckrücken Finanzinvestoren näher an ihre Managementteams heran.Sie ernennen qualifizierte Beiräte, beeinflussen die Strategieund engagieren sich über Berater auch im Tagesgeschäft.

Zuweilen wird die Meinung vertreten, dass es Investoren um jeden Preis vermeidensollten, Steuern zu zahlen. Im Rahmen eines einfachen Portfoliomodells mit Steuernwird untersucht, ob Steuervermeidung tatsächlich auf μ-σ2-effiziente Lösungenführt.[...]

We present empirical evidence that the Thai exchange rate is driven in part by international investors' cross-border portfolio rebalancing decisions. Our results are based on two comprehensive, daily-frequency datasets of foreign exchange and equity market capital flows undertaken by nonresident...

This paper investigates the purchases and redemptions of a large cross-sectionalsample of German equity funds. We find that investors punish bad performance byselling their shares, but also have a tendency to sell winners. Investors in large fundfamilies show higher sales and redemption rates....