This paper empirically investigates the impact of both the first release of analysts' stock recommendations to a limited clientele and the subsequent dissemination of the same information in a major newspaper to a broader audience. For a sample of 1460 stock recommendations published in FuW,...

The goal of this chapter is twofold: First, we present an overview of the current researchon hedge fund performance. Second, we provide new evidence for the Europeanhedge fund industry. The empirical analysis scrutinizes the return patterns in thepast and alerts investors to the potential...

This paper analyzes forward-looking monetary policy rules in structural VAR’s. First, an approach for modeling a monetary policy which aims at a strict medium term inflation or output growth target is developed. Second, the ex ante inflation-output-growth volatility trade-off for a...