Innerhalb des Euroraums haben sich in den letzten Jahren erhebliche Zinsspreads entwickelt. Der Autor vertritt die Auffassung, dass diese Spreads die Entwicklung der wirtschaftlichen Fundamentaldaten nachzeichnen. Auf diese Fundamentaldaten und entsprechend auch auf die Spreads habe die Finanz-...

Although the use of technical analysis in foreign exchange markets is well known, enduring and possibly profitably used, it is not well understood. In this paper implications of the efficient market hypothesis for the use of technical currency analysis are examined by an evaluation of the...

A new survey of fund managers reveals home bias for these sophisticated investors in a setting being unrestricted by customer preferences or legal requirements. We confirm informational and behavioural determinants of home bias and find them to hold simultaneously. Further examinations of...

This article extends earlier studies on exchange-rate expectations' formation by using new data and adding information about forecasters' reliance on fundamental analysis for the first time. We replicate the conventional result of nonrational expectations. Moreover, biases in expectations are...