Economic crises such as those that recently hit Argentina and Venezuela inflict damage on the insurance industry in the form of declining premiums and profits and even bankruptcies. As Swiss Re's new sigma study 'Emerging insurance markets: lessons learned from financial crises' shows, insurers...

The first stages of any data analysis are to get to know the aims of the studyand to get to know the data. In this study the main goal is to predict acompany´s chances of going bankrupt based on its recent financial returns...

This paper examines the characteristics of firms that voluntarily provide interim financial reports. Based on a sample of Swiss companies, where semi-annual reports became mandatory in 1997, I document that before interim reports became mandatory, analyst coverage, i.e. analysts demand for...

Verfolgt man die internationale Wirtschaftspresse im ersten Quartal des Jahres 2000, rund zweieinhalb Jahre nach dem Ausbruch der Finanzkrise in neun aufstrebenden Ländern Südostasiens, so häufen sich die Schalmeienklänge über eine rasche Erholung dieser Länder und über die Rückkehr des...

This work provides a descriptive overview of Russian markets for financialderivatives. Available figures for the exchange-traded and over-the-counter-tradedderivatives in Russia show that the Russian derivatives markets experiencedenormous growth rates since the financial crisis in 1998....

After its economic opening in 1978, China has become more and more attractive for foreign direct in-vestments and has developed into a strong internationalization target for other countries. This study ana-lyzes the internationalization-performance relationship of German companies entering the...

This paper explores the influence of wage and price staggering on monetary persistence. Weshow that, for plausible parameter values, wage and price staggering are complementary ingenerating monetary persistence. We do so by proposing the new measure of "quantitativeinertia," after discussing...

The purpose of this work is to introduce one of the most promising among recentlydeveloped statistical techniques – the support vector machine (SVM) –to corporate bankruptcy analysis. An SVM is implemented for analysing suchpredictors as financial ratios. A method of adapting it to default...

This paper considers a multivariate t version of the Gaussian dynamic conditional correlation(DCC) model proposed by Engle (2002), and suggests the use of devolatized returnscomputed as returns standardized by realized volatilities rather than by GARCH type volatilityestimates. The t-DCC...