Ziel der Studie ist es, den Einfluß fiskalischer Rahmenbedingungen auf dierelative Vorteilhaftigkeit alternativer Formen der Kapitalanlage unter besondererBerücksichtigung von Wohnungsinvestitionen zu ermitteln. Auf einemKapitalmarkt in einer Welt ohne jegliche Staatseingriffe müßten die...

This paper shows that preferences alone cannot explain the patterns reported in the literature.

This paper estimates the issuers' demand for the banker's underwriting service across different varieties of equity-linked securities.

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

Current discussions about public and private pension plans often state that the stock market is less risky in the long run than in the short run. Pension plans with their rather long planning horizon are therefore asked to increase the allocation to the stock market. Such statements, however,...

This study questions the rationality of people investing in HFs. I use a sample of London listed closed-end hedge funds to evaluate two criteria that imply irrational behavior. I find that the rationality of investors can not be rejected for the majority of time. However, the results also imply...

In this paper, we test for the presence of market discipline in the Swiss deposit market. In particular, we examine whether depositors monitor their banks and withdraw their savings deposits whenever the fundamentals of their bank are no longer satisfactory. We use a panel of bank-specific data...

Empirical evidence shows that observed macroeconomic fundamentals have little explanatory power for nominal exchange rates (the exchange rate determination puzzle). On the other hand, the recent "microstructure approach to exchange rates" has shown that most exchange rate volatility at short to...

The study analyses the interaction between the trading behaviour of 1,024 moving average and momentum models and the fluctuations of the yen/dollar exchange rate. The paper shows first that these models would have exploited exchange rate trends quite profitably between 1976 and 1999, and then...