This paper identifies low frequency movements in the time series of return dispersions suggestive of cycles and long swings in return correlations.

The question that this paper raise in this paper is how to choose the best mix of countries to diversify internationally? They compare several methods of asset allocation from a Swiss perspective over the period 1988-2001.

This paper deals with the impact of the arrival of public information on the intraday trading of highly liquid stocks quoted on the Paris Bourse.

This paper invesitigates the influence of various fundamental variables on a cross-section of credit default swap transaction data.

This paper investigates the relative performance of local and foreign financial analysts on Latin American emerging markets.

This paper deals with the country allocation provides benefits over industry allocation in a sample of European country and industry indexes.

This paper examines the determinants of stock returns in a small open economy using an APT framework. The analysis is conducted for the Swiss stock market which has the particularity of including a large proportion of firms that are exposed to foreign economic conditions.

As past research suggest, currency exposure risk is a main source of overall risk of internationaldiversified portfolios. Thus, controlling the currency risk is an important instrument forcontrolling and improving investment performance of international investments. This studyexamines the...

The present paper seeks to study the possible diversification potential by the integration ofindirect real estate investments in international portfolios. To this end, monthly index-returntime-series in the time-period from January 1985 till December 1998 from real estate investmentcompanies as...

Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt einen Versuch dar, die Zukunft des Bankwesens in Europa unter der spezifischen Fragestellung zu analysieren, ob sich trotz der offensichtlichen und gravierenden Änderungen informations-technologischer, regulatorischer und politischer Art im Umfeld der Banken die...