This paper provides a discussion about some recent issues related to the transfer of credit risk (CRT) from the perspective of global liquidity. The CRT market is enormously growing and exhibits major structural shifts in terms of buyers and sellers of protection. I try to address these issues...

Das Anlageverhalten von Privatinvestoren unterscheidet sich teilweise markant von Voraussagen, die aufgrund von Modellen der Portfolioselektion getroffen werden können. So sind zum Beispiel Portfolios häufig nicht breit diversifiziert, weder bezüglich der Anzahl Titel noch bezüglich der...

This study questions the rationality of people investing in HFs. I use a sample of London listed closed-end hedge funds to evaluate two criteria that imply irrational behavior. I find that the rationality of investors can not be rejected for the majority of time. However, the results also imply...