Momentum strategies based on continuations in stock prices have become increas-ingly popular among academics, money managers, and investors in recent years. While there is little controversy on the profitability of momentum strategies, their implementation is afflicted with many difficulties....

Die Forschungsfrage dieser Dissertation ist, ob und in welchem Ausmass die Kostenstruktur eines Unternehmens mit dem Risiko in Beziehung steht, da die Volatilität des Umsatzes und die Kostenstruktur die Volatilität der Gewinne bestimmen. Die Regression von operativen Kosten mit den Umsätzen...

Current discussions about public and private pension plans often state that the stock market is less risky in the long run than in the short run. Pension plans with their rather long planning horizon are therefore asked to increase the allocation to the stock market. Such statements, however,...

We analyse the dynamic behavior of conditional volatility in commodity markets using a novel, manually collected dataset of daily price ranges over a time span of more than 140 years, which allows more precise daily volatility estimates than are otherwise prevalent in the commodity literature....

This paper analyzes daily wheat price volatility over an observation period of more than 140 years, using daily high and low prices of futures contracts traded at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), starting in 1877. We find that volatility differences between the identified regimes is much more...

Current discussions about public and private pension plans often state that the stock market is less risky in the long run than in the short run. Pension plans with their rather long planning horizon are therefore asked to increase the allocation to the stock market. Such statements, however,...