In diesem Beitrag gehen die Autoren der Studie "Equity Ownership in Switzerland 2000" auf einzelne Aspekte dieser Befragung ein und unterziehen sich einer genaueren statistischen Analyse. Ini einem ersten Teil werden regionale Unterschiede im Anlageverhalten untersucht...

The surge in international asset trade since the early 1990s has lead to renewed interest in models with international portfolio choice, an aspect that was largely cast aside when the ad-hoc portfolio balance models of the 1970s were replaced bymodels of optimizing agents. We develop the...

This paper shows that preferences alone cannot explain the patterns reported in the literature.

This article analyzes the effect of liquidity risk on the performance of various hedge fund portfolio strategies. Similarly to Avramov et al. (2007), we find that, before accounting for the effect of liquidity risk, hedge fund portfolios that incorporate predictability in managerial skills...