Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit hat zum Ziel, den Kurssturz im Herbst 1987 und Ansätze zu seiner Erklärung darzustellen. Darüberhinaus werden Verlaufsunterschiede bei der Entwicklung der Aktienindizes analysiert. Die bisher in der Literatur kaum untersuchte Entwicklung der Umsätze an den...

The aim of the study is to explore the long run association among Pakistani equity market and some developed and emerging equity markets. Weekly data from the period of 2000 to 2010 was applied in this study. The result highlighted Pakistani equity market well correlated with the American equity...

This paper develops a market microstructure model with asymmetric information in order to quantify the influence which practical decision rules have on asset process. The users of practical decision rules have incomplete information at their disposal and trade in a market with both fully...

In this paper we propose and estimate an econometric model for the distribution of trading activity across options written on the DAX index. The model is based on the observation that in this market options with strike prices ending on 000, 200, 400, 600 and 800 (the class of 200-strike options)...

The appropriate role for equity prices in monetary policy deliberations has been hotly debated for some time. Recent work suggests that equity prices have affected monetary policy decisions above and beyond their indirect effect on the traditional goal variables of the FOMC. However, the...

In this paper we develop a dynamic model for integer counts to capture the dis- creteness of price changes for financial transaction prices. Our model rests on an autoregressive multinomial component for the direction of the price change and a dynamic count data component for the size of the...

Is real investment fully determined by fundamentals or is it sometimes affected by stock market misvaluation? We introduce three new tests that: measure the reaction of investment to sales shocks for firms that may be overvalued; use Fama-MacBeth regressions to determine whether overinvestment...

We empirically analyze the determinants of Initial Public Offering (IPO) underpricing using panel data for 29 countries over the period 1988-2005. Our hypotheses stress the importance of institutional and legal factors in explaining cross-country variations. We find that increased protection of...