Risk-Yield Profile of the New Covered-Call-Index of the German Stock Exchange We have analysed in this article the risk-yield profile of the new DAXplus Covered-Call-Index of Deutsche Börse AG (German Stock Exchange) in the period from January 1993 to June 2005. It has turned out that, on a...

Numerous recent studies, e.g. EU Commission (2004a), Baele et al. (2004), Adam et al. (2002), and the research pooled in ECB-CFS (2005), Gaspar, Hartmann, and Sleijpen (2003), have documented progress in EU financial integration from a micro-level view. This paper contributes to this research by...

EU financial integration is at an advanced, yet incomplete stage. This paper furtherlinks and contributes new insights to a) the financial integration, and b) the strategyliterature strands. The research develops propositions on how the differing degrees of integration in EU ¯nancial markets...

Numerous recent studies, e.g. EU Commission (2004a), Baele et al. (2004), Adam et al. (2002), and the research pooled in ECB-CFS (2005), Gaspar, Hartmann, and Sleijpen (2003), have documented progress in EU financial integration from a micro-level view. This paper contributes to this research by...