Optimale Darlehensbündel in der privaten Immobilienfinanzierung bei steigender Zinsstrukturkurve In diesem Aufsatz wird ein Optimierungspotenzial in der privaten Immobilienfinanzierung analysiert, das sowohl in der wissenschaftlichen als auch in der praktischen Literatur nicht behandelt wird,...

Brander and Lewis argue in a seminal paper (AER, 1986) that a firm's debt-equity ratio should have important strategic effects on product market competition. We test their model in a duopoly experiment under both, Bertrand and Cournot competition. We find that leverage has strategic effects, but...

Purpose: In short-term forecasting of day-ahead electricity prices, incorporating intraday dependencies is vital for accurate predictions. However, it quickly leads to dimensionality problems, i.e. ill-defined models with too many parameters, which require an adequate remedy. This study...

In this paper, we investigate the German stock market with regard to negative stubvalues or parent company puzzles. These are situations where a firms marketvalue is less than the value of its ownership stake in a publicly traded subsidiary.According to MITCHELL/PULVINO/STAFFORD (2002), negative...

The Sharpe ratio is adequate for evaluating investment funds when the returns ofthose funds are normally distributed and the investor intends to place all his risky assetsinto just one investment fund. Hedge fund returns differ significantly from anormal distribution. For this reason, other...

Eine zentrale Fragestellung in der wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung auf dem GebietHedgefonds stellt deren Performancemessung dar. Ausgangspunkt unserer Untersuchungbildet die in der Literatur verbreitete Meinung, dass Hedgefonds aufgrund ungewöhnlicherAusprägungen der höheren...