Investors have too often extrapolated from recent experience. In the 1950s, who but the most rampant optimist would have dreamt that over the next fifty years the real return on equities would be 9% per year? Yet this is what happened in the U.S. stock market. The optimists triumphed. However,...

Der Autor erörtert einige Lösungsansätze für die Verwendung von Scoring-Modellen in verschiedenen völlig heterogenen Branchen. Die aufgezeigten Beispiele erstrecken sich zum Beispiel auf Entscheidungsvorbereitungen für Wertpapieranlagen und beim Reisendeneinsatz.

We combine the dynamic dividend-discount model with an accounting-based vector autoregression framework that allows for a decomposition of EU banks' stock returns to cash-flow and expected return news components. The main findings are that while the bulk of the variability of EU banks' stock...

This paper investigates the state and process of integration of the European securities market infrastructure. The integration of financial infrastructures is one of the basic policy goals and key responsibilities of the Eurosystem. The paper finds that, despite the single currency, the euro...