Einleitung -- Die Zulassung von Aktien zum Börsenhandel -- Methoden der Wertpapieremission -- Prospekthaftung nach dem Börsengesetz -- Die Entwicklung der deutschen Wertpapierbörsen -- Die deutsche Börsenstruktur in drei Phasen -- Die Untersuchung von Börseneinführungen -- Schlussbetrachtung.

Die Börse war im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert einer der spekta­kulärsten Orte im Zentrum Berlins. Der 1863 eingeweihte repräsentative Monumentalbau gegenüber dem Berliner Dom manifestierte das neue Nationalbewusstsein Preußens und entwickelte sich zu einem prominenten Schauplatz ökonomischen...

This paper is a slightly revised version of a presentation that was given at the celebration of the Center for Finan-cial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt on the occa-sion of the 80th birthday of Dr. Rolf-E. Breuer on Novem-ber 30, 2017. It illuminates the development of the ex-change...

"Je höher man steigt, umso tiefer der Fall" - auf wohl kein Phänomen trifft dieser Ausspruch so gut zu wie auf Finanzkrisen. Steigen die Preise für ein Spekulationsobjekt in immer gröe︢re Höhen und erhitzt sich der Markt immer mehr, ist die Folge meist ein abrupter Fall: Die Blase platzt!...

Dass die internationalen Geldströme über Frankfurt laufen, ist allseits bekannt. Weitaus weniger weiß man über die regionalen Finanzzentren in Deutschland. Dabei bieten sie viele Vorteile: persönliche Kenntnisse des Umfelds, unmittelbare Kontakte zu den Entscheidern vor Ort und allgemein...

Introduction: stock markets and corporate finance -- A short history of stock markets -- The time value of money -- Market debt, interest rates and valuation -- The valuation of equity shares -- Shareholders' required rate of return (the cost of equity capital) -- Accounting statements and ratio...

"In the late 1960s, France attempted a complete overhaul of its financial regulations without being forced to do so by a stock market crash or the collapse of its banking system. Out of pure political expediency, Gaullist reformers seized the opportunity offered by a minor insider trading case...

Heightened counterparty risk during the recent financial crisis has raised questions about the role clearinghouses play in global financial stability. Empirical identification of the effect of centralized clearing on counterparty risk is challenging because of the co-incidence of macro-economic...

Heightened counterparty risk during the recent financial crisis has raised questions about the role clearinghouses play in global financial stability. Empirical identification of the effect of centralized clearing on counterparty risk is challenging because of the co-incidence of macro-economic...

Heightened counterparty risk during the recent financial crisis has raised questions about the role clearinghouses play in global financial stability. Empirical identification of the effect of centralized clearing on counterparty risk is challenging because of the co-incidence of macro-economic...

Heightened counterparty risk during the recent financial crisis has raised questions about the role clearinghouses play in global financial stability. Empirical identification of the effect of centralized clearing on counterparty risk is challenging because of the co-incidence of macro-economic...

What explains short-term fluctuations of stock prices? This paper exploits a natural experiment from the 18th century in which information flows were regularly interrupted for exogenous reasons. English shares were traded on the Amsterdam exchange and news came in on sailboats that were often...

Improved information technology and higher volume should drive orders to be concentrated in one market, lowering the costs of transactions. However, the opposite occurred during the bull market of the 1920s when rapid technological change spawned a flood of new issues. This paper employs newly...

Information on the performance of equities during the latter part of the globalized long nineteenth century is scarce, particularly for smaller European economies such as Ireland. Using a dataset of over 35,000 price-year observations from the Investor's Monthly Manual, this paper constructs new...

What explains short-term fluctuations of stock prices? This paper exploits a natural experiment from the 18th century in which information flows were regularly interrupted for exogenous reasons. English shares were traded on the Amsterdam exchange and news came in on sailboats that were often...

Improved information technology and higher volume should drive orders to be concentrated in one market, lowering the costs of transactions. However, the opposite occurred during the bull market of the 1920s when rapid technological change spawned a flood of new issues. This paper employs newly...

"The definitive account of the crash of 1987, a cautionary tale of how the U.S. financial system nearly collapsed ... Monday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. The market fell 22.6 percent--almost twice as bad as the worst day of 1929--equal to a loss of nearly...

"A timely, counterintuitive defense of Wall Street and the big banks as the invisible--albeit flawed--engines that power our ideas, and should be made to work better for all of us Maybe you think the banks should be broken up and the bankers should be held accountable for the financial crisis in...

Introduction: opportunities and obstacles -- The vortex of speculation: picturing women investors -- Engendering finance: women and Wall Street -- Lambs to be fleeced and petticoated sharks: women and financial fraud -- Turning Wall Street inside out: Victoria Woodhull and the feminist debate on...

"This book examines the controversial issue of securitization in a global, historical context. It traces its origins and compares evidence of securitization across countries, linking differences to variations in legal, political, and cultural regimes. By incorporating the history and current...

In this article Sims' causality test based on Granger definition of causality was used to examine causality relationships between stock markets and economic growth in Cameroon based on the time series data from 2006 to 2010. Our findings suggest that the Douala Stock Exchange still doesn't...

A surge in orders during the stock market boom of the late 1920s collided against the constraint created by the fixed number of brokers on the New York Stock Exchange. Estimates of the determinants of individual stock bid-ask spreads from panel data reveal that spreads jumped when volume spiked,...