The defaulted and distressed, public and private debt markets in the United States increased enormously to a record $942 billion (face value) at the end of 2002. The market value of this increasingly attractive alternative investment segment was approximately $512 billion. (...)

In this paper, we investigate the pricing of Japanese yen interest rate swaps during the period 1990-96. We obtain measures of the spreads of the swap rates over comparable Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) for different maturities and analyze the relationship between the swap spreads and credit...

Das vergangene Jahr hat uns ein neues Schuldverschreibungsgesetz beschert.1Dadurch wurde das alte „Gesetz betreffend die gemeinsamen Rechte derBesitzer von Schuldverschreibungen“ vom 14. 12. 18992 abgelöst, dempraktisch keine große Bedeutung zukam. Einen Vorläufer haben diese Gesetzeim...

This paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist ProfessorAmartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways inwhich Sen’s research agenda has deepened and expanded human rightsdiscourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how hiswork...

This paper investigates the intraday response of T-bond futures pricesto surprises in headline figures of U.S. macroeconomic reports. Analyzing thetime series properties and the information content of the macroeconomic newsflow, the paper seeks an answer to the question, what determines the...

This paper delineates the simultaneous impact of non-anticipated information onmean and variance of the intraday return process by including appropriate variablesaccounting for the news flow into both the mean and the variance function. This allowsus to differentiate between the consistent price...

1. Die Studie befaßt sich mit den rechtlichen Anforderungen an dieUmwandlung und den Umtausch von Finanzinstrumenten. Finanzinstrumente indem hier gemeinten Sinne sind Aktien und ausgewählteSchuldverschreibungsformen (Finanzierungsgenußrechte; Wandelschuldverschreibungen;einfache...