Price indices for heterogenous goods such as real estate or fine art constitute crucial information for institutional or private investors considering alternative investments in times of financial markets turmoil. Classical mean-variance analysis of alternative investments has been hampered by...

This dissertation contains seven chapters. Chapter 1 serves as a general introduction to the risks and returns of collectibles, and is co-authored with Elroy Dimson. Chapter 2 investigates the long-term investment performance of art, and is co-authored with Luc Renneboog. Chapter 3, also written...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Möglichkeiten der Bewertung von Kunst- und Kulturgegenständen im neuen doppischen Finanzwesen der Kommunen im Kontext zum Zweck der Bilanzierung und schließt mit einem Modellvorschlag zur Ermittlung des Erhaltungsaufwandes. Die ergebnisorientierte Steuerung und...

This study develops a novel 2-step hedonic approach, which is used to construct a price index for German paintings. This approach enables the researcher to use every single auction record, instead of only those auction records that belong to a sub-sample of selected artists. This results in a...