Since 1 January 2002, consumers have been paying with euro banknotes and coins everywhere in the euro area, irrespective of the country, but non – cash payments between two countries continued to be expensive and complicated. Because of this fact, further integration was needed. To push the...

Mankind consume more and more information. These are different information for different decisions. There are different users, information consumers, but all of them have a common purpose, that of wellbeing and good. People want, wanted and shall want to live better, to do things better, to...

TARGET2 – Securities will be a platform for the cross – border and domestic setlement of securities against central bank money. The platform will service the Central Securities Depositories (CSDs). It will be run by the Eurosystem. The TARGET2 – Securities project pursues cost reduction by...

Mankind consume more and more information. These are different information for different decisions.There are different users, information consumers, but all of them have a common purpose, that of wellbeing and good. People want, wanted and shall want to live better, to do things better, to...

Nach Miller (1977) führt eine erhöhte Sichtbarkeit für Aktien tendenziell zu einem Preisanstieg, da die Nachfrage potentieller Investoren in Abwesenheit von Leerverkäufen auf ein limitiertes Angebot trifft. Die Visibility-Hypothese wird in der vorliegenden Studie anhand des Indexeffekts der...

This paper finds evidence that the Indian stock market has become weak-form efficient, off-late. We proceed by, first, locating structural breaks in the index using Bai-Perron's method for endogenous multiple structural changes. Four structural breaks are identified for the period 1991 to 2008...

We investigate the role of crude oil spot and futures prices in the process of price discovery by using a cost-of-carry model with an endogenous convenience yield and daily data over the period from January 1990 to December 2008. We provide evidence that futures markets play a more important...

Este trabajo desarrolla un análisis empírico de la persistencia en la performance de los fondos de inversión españoles de renta variable nacional. Como medidas de performance emplea el alfa de Jensen y un ratio novedoso desarrollado por Ferruz y Sarto perteneciente a la familia del índice...

The purpose of this paper is to look at the ‘size-effect’ question using a large sample drawn from New York Stock Exchange prices. The impact of the stock returns' size is also examined and the validity of models explaining the observed negative relations between asset returns and inflation...

Theory suggests that uninsurable income risk induces individuals to accumulate assets as a precautionary reserve of value. Most assets, however, bear rate of return risk, that can be diversified only if every asset is traded by a large number of individuals and arbitrage is frictionless. Using...