This paper presents the first analysis of open-end leverage certificates on the German market. The major innovations of these certificates are twofold. First, issuers announce a price-setting formula according to which they are willing to buy and sell the certificates over time. Second, the...

This paper presents the first analysis of open-end leverage certificates on the German market. The major innovations of these certificates are twofold. First, issuers announce a price-setting formula according to which they are willing to buy and sell the certificates over time. Second, the...

This article examines the interest-rate sensitivity of listed financial service companies in the German capital market based on the fundamental approach developed by Stone (1974). This means using a market and an interest-rate factor for explaining returns on shares, whereas empirical studies...

This is the first paper analyzing the impact of index momentum factors on the performance of international and global equity funds. Extending an international, index-based version of the Fama and French (1993) three-factor model by adding the factors of country momentum and sector momentum, we...

Empirical capital-market studies on share sensitivity to interest rates – especially referring to financial service companies – regularly draw on variations of a two-factor regression model that explains returns on shares using a market and an interest-rate factor. In the literature, this...