Based on a cash-in-advance approach, this paper investigates theoretically the determinants of money holdings of firms under the conditions of a highly regulated labor market and analyses empirically the demand for money of German businesses during the period 1960-1998. As a result of our...

This paper examines the role of the ECB communication activities on daily Eurodollar exchange rate and interest rates.We estimate the relationship between monetary policy and the exchange rate using a technique that explicitly recognises the joint determination of both the levels and...

With a few unfortunate exceptions the last three decades have seen reductions in inflation around the world to the point that many would argue that further improvements in price stability would offer only limited welfare gains. This experience is the result of many factors, some of which are...

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht auf der theoretischen Basis eines Barwertmodells und eines spekulativen Blasenprozesses die Existenz spekulativer Komponenten in britischen, deutschen und US-amerikanischen Aktienkursen. Die methodische Grundlage ist ein neues, nichtlineares Zeitreihenverfahren,...

Vorteilhaftigkeit des börslichen Abendhandels aus Anlegersicht In dieser Studie werden die Effekte der Vorverlegung des Handelsschlusses im elektronischen deutschen Börsenhandelssystem Xetra am 3. November 2003 von 20.00 Uhr auf 17.30 Uhr auf den nicht-anonymen Parketthandel der Frankfurter...

Existing models of herding suffer from the drawback that conventional measures assume it is constant over time and independent of the state of the economy. This paper proposes a Markov switching herding model which supports the view that herding is not constant. By means of time-varying...

In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird die Geldnachfragefunktion nach Deutschlands M2 mit saisonbereinigten und unbereinigten Quartalsdaten in der Periode von 1960 bis 1996 untersucht. Die empirischen Resultate deuten darauf hin, daß Schwierigkeiten bei der Modellierung einer stabilen...

This paper estimates standard and extended Taylor rules for core countries in the euro area, namely France, Germany and Italy, as well as for the ECB. Forward, backward and forecast-based rules are estimated for a variety of samples since the late 1970s. We are particularly interested in the...

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between stock returns and short-term interest rates. Identification of the stock return-interest rate relation is solved by using a new technique that relies on the heteroskedasticity of shocks to stock market returns. We suggest some improvements...

Using monthly data for the period 1953-2003, we apply a real-time modeling approach to investigate the implications of U.S. political stock market anomalies for forecasting excess stock returns. Our empirical findings show that political variables, selected on the basis of widely used model...