In this paper we examine the effects of the amount of trade disclosure in an experimental financial market, in which nine professional traders set quotes and trade continuously. In addition to these market makers, two computerized external customers interact, representing both informed and...

100 years ago this year, Irving Fisher adhered to 'price movements being imperfectly foreseen' resulting in short term deviations from UIP, which in the longer term are averaged away. In this paper, we first review Irving Fisher's seminal work on UIP and on the closely related equation linking...

In this paper, we first review Irving Fisher's seminal work on UIP and on the closely related equation linking interest rates and inflation relation. We go on to re-examine the performance of UIP since the advent of floating exchange rates in the 1970s. Like Fisher a century ago, we find that...

We examine the effects of price disclosure on market performance in a continuous experimental multiple-dealer market in which seven professional market-makers trade a single security. The dealers trade with one another and with computerized informed and liquidity traders. Our key comparison is...

We review Irving Fisher's seminal work on UIP and on the closely related equation linking interest rates and inflation. Like Fisher, we find that the failures of UIP are connected to individual episodes in which errors surrounding exchange rate expectations are persistent, but eventually...

European banking regulation has been harmonized to a high degree over the last few decades. Nevertheless, the European banking industry remains fragmented as shown by the relatively high market shares of banks in their home countries. In this paper we concentrate on the integration process of...

In this paper we examine the impact of domestic and ERM-wide monetary conditions on national inflation rates in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands for the period 1973-1994 and two sub periods using an extended open-economy version of the standard P*-model. The results show that...

Factors represent certain parts in the market, which are more attractive in the long term than other parts. In the case of equities for example, leading academic studies demonstrate that momentum, small cap and low-volatility stocks systematically generate higher risk-adjusted returns. Factors...

This article investigates the building blocks to successful investment strategies for institutional investors. It presents the results of a worldwide survey of investment beliefs, and finds striking differences in how pension funds and commercial asset managers view capital markets. Asset...

A direct relationship between the observed investment beliefs held by pension funds and performance measures is tested using an international sample of pension funds. Investment beliefs address strategic choices in the investment philosophy and process that affect the future performance of the...