Die vorliegende Studie untersucht für den Zeitraum Februar 1973 bis Dezember 2003 den Einfluss sechs makroökonomischer Variablen auf die Risikoprämien von Bankaktien in Deutschland. Besondere Bedeutung kommt der getrennten Analyse von Universal- und Hypothekenbanken zu. Die...

Zinsprognosen spielen eine bedeutende Rolle für verschiedene Bereiche des Bankgeschäftes. Die Auswertung von historischen Prognosezeitreihen von 19 prominenten deutschen Bankhäusern nährt allerdings erhebliche Zweifel daran, dass die Anstrengungen zur Prognose der künftigen Zinsentwicklung...

Based on German government bond yields, this paper analyses the performance of laddered strategies during a period of low interest rates. Relying on the REX, Germany"s leading bond index, laddered cash flows are created, and maturity structures are systematically changed. A constructed rolling...

Section 489 of the German Civil Code anchors a prepayment option in all fixed-rate retail loans with a term of more than 10.5 years. The primary purpose of this paper is to develop an approach for valuing legal prepayment options (LPOs), embedded in 15-year German mortgage loans, at their...

Owing to the significant role of financial sector reforms in economic growth, several studies have examined its transmission channels. This paper focuses on the stock market channel by investigating the impact of financial sector reforms on stock market growth in Ghana from 1990 to 2019. A...

We study a canonical model of decentralized exchange for a durable good or asset, where agents are assumed to have time-varying, heterogeneous utility types. Whereas the existing literature has focused on the special case of two types, we allow agents' utility to be drawn from an arbitrary...

We construct a novel measure of bank performance, investigate its determinants, and show that it affects bank resilience, lending behaviour and real outcomes. Using confidential and granular data, we measure performance against a market-based benchmark portfolio that mimics individual banks'...

This paper investigates whether the uncovered interest parity (UIP) will hold more firmly if the local currency bond markets (LCBMs) are more developed, and the presence of nonbank financial institutions (NBFIs) is expanded. Deviations in UIP decrease as LCBMs develop, while the patterns of the...

This paper is concerned with the valuation and analysis of default-risky debt instruments with arbitrary interest and principal payments. For the valuation, we use three nested multivariate extensions of the standard Merton (1974) model for pricing risky zero-coupon bonds. First, we present a...

This paper delevops a tools to analyse the ordering of concordance of random vectors.