This study questions the rationality of people investing in HFs. I usea sample of London listed closed-end hedge funds to evaluate two criteriathat imply irrational behavior. I nd that the rationality of investorscan not be rejected for the majority of time. However, the results alsoimply that...

This paper uses firm-level data on 162 large Hungarian enterprises to analyse the relationship betweenownership structure and corporate performance in 1998 and 1999. Cross-sectional regressions are runfor each of these years using the return on assets (ROA) as the measure of performance. Both...

At the beginning of the new millennium, the financialservices market is experiencing a fundamental shift. Moretransparent and global markets through new means ofcommunication on the one hand and better informed andmore demanding customers on the other hand have led toa dramatically intensified...

This chapter gives an overview of current research in evolutionary -nance. We mainly focus on the survival and stability properties ofinvestment strategies associated with the Kelly rule. Our approach tothe study of the wealth dynamics of investment strategies is inspired byDarwinian ideas on...

Ziel dieses Beitrages ist es zu zeigen, ob und unter welchen Bedingungen Investoren, z.B. auf derGrundlage eines Immobilien-Leasingfonds, sinnvoll in die Finanzierung der Renovierungskosten vonBaudenkmalen einbezogen werden können, welche im Eigentum selbstnutzenderertragsteuerbefreiter...

This paper examines the impact of agency conicts on corporate nancing decisions. Werst build a dynamic contingent claims model in which nancing policy results from a trade-obetween tax benets, contracting frictions, and agency conicts. In our setting, partially-entrenched managers set the rms'...

Let S be an Rd-valued semimartingale and ( n) a sequence of C-valued inte-grands, i.e., predictable, S-integrable processes taking values in some given closedset C(!, t) ⊆ Rd which may depend on the state ! and time t in a predictable way.Suppose that the stochastic integrals ( n · S)...

Die Finanzierung selbstgenutzter Wohnimmobilien erfolgt heute noch überwiegend durchBank- oder Versicherungsdarlehen. In diesem Beitrag wird gezeigt, daß durch die intelligenteGestaltung von Immobilien-Leasingverträgen für private Kunden eine alternative Finanzierungsformerschlossen werden...

Markets are undergoing a fundamental shift towards the end of the second millenium: inmany business branches the traditional market forms are supplemented - and in some of thembeing replaced in the long run - by new information age forms of business. Firms wanting tomeet this challenge are...

The interdependence of technical and financial considerations poses a majorproblem for the development of appropriate decision support systems in businesspractice. In this paper, an application - with strategic importance for outsourcingproviders in information technology - is described...