This dissertation analyzes how asset performance relates to inflation based on 50 countries and 60 years of data. The three key findings are: a nonlinear behavior of bills, bonds, and equities against inflation, the demystification of listed infrastructure as inflation hedge, and, finally, a...

Despite its theoretical appeal, Markowitz mean-variance portfolio optimization is plagued by practical issues. It is especially difficult to obtain reliable estimates of a stock's expected return. Recent research has therefore focused on minimum volatility portfolio optimization, which...

Kapitalmarktanomalien sind empirische Ergebnisse, die sich scheinbar nicht durch das Capital Asset Pricing Model erklären lassen. Die Dissertation analysiert, ob Anomalien, die in der Vergangenheit auftraten, auch in neuen und unabhängigen Stichproben fortbestehen. Unterschiede in...

High (low) quality stocks generate anomalously high (low) returns above and beyond expected returns based on betas, market sizes, valuations, and momentum. We provide a comprehensive overview of commonly used quality definitions and test their predictive power for stock returns. We show that...