The ECB has an obligation to provide statistical information of the highest quality to the public and this third edition of the publication u0093Bond markets and long-term interest rates in non-euro area Member States of the European Union and in accession countriesu0094 serves to contribute to...

We analyse the potentially vulnerable and systemically relevant financial intermediation chain established by hedge funds and prime brokers. Our dataset covers the 306 largest global hedge funds and their prime brokers over the period July 2001 to December 2011. The study illustrates that hedge...

The price of derivatives (and hence of structured products) can be calculated as thediscounted value of expected future payoffs, assuming standard hypotheses on frictionless and complete markets and on the type of stochastic processes for the price of the underlying. However, the probabilities...

Real estate is an important asset, but as a direct investment subject to several difficulties. Shares of public open end funds or of real estate stock corporations represent a possible way for an investor to avoid these problems. The focus of this paper is the analysis of inflation risk of...

Optionen auf festverzinsliche Wertpapiere (kurz: Rentenoptionen) werden seit1982 in den USA und seit 1990 auch an der Deutschen Terminbörse in Frankfurtgehandelt. In der Literatur hat man sich stets mehr mit Aktienoptionenauseinandergesetzt, während die besondere Problematik von...

Zur Nutzung der existierenden Netzeffekte in der Abwicklung von Finanztransaktionen,insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund der Notwendigkeit zur Durchsetzung von Standards,wird der Aufbau von Netzwerken immer wichtiger. Somit wird die Gestaltung vonBeziehungskonfigurationen im europäischen Clearing...

We combine the dynamic dividend-discount model with an accounting-based vector autoregression framework that allows for a decomposition of EU banks' stock returns to cash-flow and expected return news components. The main findings are that while the bulk of the variability of EU banks' stock...