The pace of innovation in financial instruments has been enormous over the last two dec-ades, but only a few of them have survived. Several papers deal with the valuation of existing financialproducts. In contrast, our approach tries to explain the use of certain financial innovations by...

As in Breuer/Hartmann/Kleefisch (2003) this approach tries to explain the use of certainfinancial innovations by their fulfillment of different corporate financing functions. In contrast, wedissect equity instead of debt innovations. First, we identify numerous basic components of...

Im Rahmen des vorliegenden Beitrags wird geprüft, unter welchen Bedingungen die Möglichkeit nicht allgemein beobachtbarer unternehmerischer Terminmarktaktivitäten trotz der Existenz eines potentiellen Risikoanreizproblems und der Annahme allgemeiner Risikoneutralität gesamtwirtschaftlich...

The most relevant practical impediment to an application of the Markowitz portfolio selection approach is the problem of estimating return moments, in particular return expectations. We analyze the consequences of using return estimates implied by analysts' dividend forecasts under the explicit...

We show analytically under quite general conditions that implied rates of return based on analysts' earnings forecasts are only a downward biased estimator for future expected one-period returns and therefore not suited for computing market risk premia. The extent of this bias is substantial as...