Purpose - Written communication differences across cultures can set the tone for effective or disastrous business relationships. Although English has been the go-to language in business, managers from different countries can significantly differ in how they convey the firms' information. This...

This paper analyzes market efficiency (EMH) with the day-of-the-week effect and the changes that might appear after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on the example of the OMX Exchange and its indices. Before the pandemic, only the OMX Baltic All-share index was efficient; during the...

Volatility is a key concept for understanding the dual relationships between the economic variables since it is inversely related to the stability of economies. Many models such as GARCH models have been constructed through time to understand which determinants and conditions can affect the...

Purpose - Written communication differences across cultures can set the tone for effective or disastrous business relationships. Although English has been the go-to language in business, managers from different countries can significantly differ in how they convey the firms' information. This...

Die Deutsche Börse AG plant, im September 2002 ein als Xetra Best bezeichnetes System einzuführen, das es Banken und Brokern erlaubt, Aufträge von Privatanlegern zu internalisieren, also selbst als Gegenpartei dem Kunden gegenüber aufzutreten. Zudem soll die Möglichkeit geschaffen werden,...

Elektronische Kreditmarktplätze: Funktionsweise, Gestaltung und Erkenntnisstand bei dieser Form des "Peer-to-Peer Lending" Durch elektronische Kreditmarktplätze können Kredite zwischen privaten Kapitalanlegern und Kreditsuchenden mit geringem Aufwand vermittelt werden. Dies stellt eine...

Accepting non-linearities as an endemic feature of financial data, this paper re-examines Cochrane"s "new fact in finance" hypothesis (Cochrane, Economic Perspectives-FRB of Chicago 23, 36–58, 1999). By implementing two methods, frequently encountered in digital signal processing analysis,...

Wo investieren Distressed-Securities-Hedgefonds? Ein Asset-based Style-Faktorenmodell In dieser Arbeit werden die systematischen Risiken von Distressed-Securities-Hedgefonds untersucht. Es finden sich vier Faktoren, die das systematische Risiko dieser Strategiegruppe weitgehend erklären: Das...

Organisation des Sekundärhandels von Bundeswertpapieren: Historisch gewachsen! Ökonomisch begründbar? Eine empirische Analyse. Dieser Beitrag untersucht erstmals für den Anleihenhandel das Phänomen der Koexistenz mehrerer Handelswege. Wir beobachten im Sekundärhandel von Bundeswertpapieren...

Existing time series of the returns on German stocks are either short or have weaknesses. We discuss the problems of creating such a time series and then report our monthly series based on all stocks in the top segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. We compare our return series with the...