Der Siegeszug von Indexfonds stellt eine Herausforderung für die Corporate Governance von Publikumsgesellschaften dar. Auf Basis umfangreicher eigener Datenauswertungen dokumentiert die Arbeit zunächst den Bedeutungsgewinn passiver Vermögensverwalter in den Beteiligungsstrukturen....

This paper offers a quantitative description of European private equity markets and compares the recent development in these markets with the development of the US venture capital market. Moreover, the paper addresses the differences between private equity investors acting in a single national...

We examine the performance of pairs trading in the U.S. REIT market compared with that in the U.S. general stock market over the period 1987 to 2008. The results suggest that the REIT market provided superior profit opportunities for this strategy over common stocks after accounting for the...