In recent years, especially in the aftermath of the global financial meltdown, the performance of South Asia capital markets has attracted the attention of the researchers and investors across the globe. The resilient shown provides the impetus to examine the efficient market hypothesis in these...

We explore the welfare costs of inflation originating from lack of liquidity satiation for Weimar Republic's hyperinflation and three high-inflation countries. Towards the peak of Weimar's hyperinflation the costs are estimated to have been equal to nearly 20 per cent of income. For Israel,...

There is now ample evidence of a rise in ‘non-standard work arrangements’ in many industrialised economies, yet only rarely does theoretical and empirical work probe the question of why the risk of temporary employment varies. Focusing on temporary employment, the author extends the scope of...

Dieses Papier betrachtet den Effekt der Umwelt- und Sozialperformance europäischer Unternehmen auf deren Shareholder Value. Der Shareholder Value wird dabei mit der durchschnittlichen monatlichen Aktienrendite zwischen 1996 und 2001 operationalisiert. Die Studie basiert auf zweistufigen...