We study the performance of conditional asset pricing models in explaining the German cross-section of stock returns. Our test assets are portfolios sorted by size and book-to-market as in the paper by Fama and French (1993). Our results show that the empirical performance of the Capital Asset...

We present an analysis of VaR forecasts and Pamp;L-series of all 13 German banks that used internal models for regulatory purposes in the year 2001. We introduce the notion of well-behaved forecast systems, that allows to use more powerful inference on the level of conservativenessof VaR...

Existing estimates of the long-run abnormal performance after initial public offerings in Germany differ between +1.54 % and -19.85 % for holding periods of 36 months. We discuss the methodological problems of these studies and the peculiarities of the German market. Using a large sample,...