Download or read book Empirical Research on the German Capital Market written by Wolfgang Bühler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fifteen original articles results from a cooperative intensive program of research on the German capital market. The program objectives included the development of expertise in modern empirical methods in financial economics and the derivation of results that might be specific to the German capital market. The four parts of the book are dedicated to: - problems of market structure and organization - information and capital market - risk and return - futures and options Altogether, the book gives an overview of empirical research on capital markets in Germany and helps to understand their nature. It also shows the application of modern techniques in financial research.

Download or read book Testing the CAPM on the German Stock Market written by Daniel Loskamp and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1,3, European Business School - International University Schlo Reichartshausen Oestrich-Winkel, course: Asset Management Seminar, 34 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Although the model is widely accepted and practically used as explained above, it is nevertheless far from being perfect as outlined in its record of empirical studies.9 Generally criticized is on the one hand that the underlying assumptions of the model are very theoretical and thus not able to illustrate reality and on the other one that there are problems in implementing well-founded tests of the model relating to the choice of the right market portfolio.10 But, the success of the CAPM will remain as long as there is no other model which offers as " ...] powerful and intuitively pleasing predictions about how to measure risk and the relation between risk and return."11 The objective of this study is to empirically test the CAPM on the German stock market. Since most of the empirical studies that have been made in the past focus on the U.S. stock market, this paper will try to find out if the results of these U.S. empirical studies can also be shown on the German stock market. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to analyze the relationship between risk and return on the German stock market to find out whether the CAPM holds.

Download or read book Capital Market Days as an Investor Relations Instrument written by Karla Linden and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines Capital Market Days as an Investor Relations instrument. Capital Market Days have been increasingly demanded and valued by analysts and institutional investors, especially since the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) came into force in 2018. At the same time, academic research on Capital Market Days is at a very early stage. Only one empirical study exists so far, focusing on the US market. This dissertation significantly contributes to previous academic research by examining Capital Market Days in another geographical area as well as by uncovering so far unexamined aspects of Capital Market Days. The empirical analyses are based on a dataset of 382 Capital Market Days hosted by DAX, MDAX, SDAX, and TecDAX listed corporations from 2000 to 2017. The descriptive statistics reveal that Capital Market Days are increasingly used by German corporations with the majority of the 160 companies in the sample having already made use of this disclosure instrument. The results of the logistic regression show that the likelihood of hosting a Capital Market Day increases for companies with a higher demand for information, higher complexity, greater need for reputation improvement, more extensive hosting history, and fewer other face-to-face interaction events. According to the results of the event study, the cumulative average abnormal return equals 1.06 percent in the 31-day event window. This return behavior is primarily driven by high levels of awareness in the pre-event period. From the event date on, the returns stabilize and remain on the high pre-event level, suggesting that Capital Market Days are informative disclosure events. The results of the multiple regression demonstrate that the share price reaction is particularly pronounced for companies with a lower visibility, more intangible assets, a higher leverage ratio, a financial loss in the previous year, and experience in hosting int.

Download or read book Value Stocks beat Growth Stocks An empirical Analysis for the German Stock Market written by Christian Schießl and published by Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag). This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a 'free of survivorship-bias' sample of German stocks listed at the Frankfurt stock exchange, the study investigates the ability of hedge portfolio formation structures, built of three value premium proxies (P/B, P/E, and DY), the size factor, and the technical momentum factor, to generate excess returns in the period 1992 to 2011. First, the author characterizes and defines the significant terms that are in connection with value and growth investing. He continues with the discussion of asset pricing with the CAPM, the Fama and French three-factor model, and the Carhart extension, and then describes the expected stock returns that are of capital importance. Moreover, the author deals with related studies for the German stock market. He gives a detailed description of the empirical analysis before he draws his conclusions. The author's purpose is to answer the following core questions: Is there a value premium in the German market between 1992 and 2011? Is there a reversed size premium like recent empirical findings suggest? Do high momentum stocks perform better than low momentum stocks? Is there a significant seasonal pattern in hedge portfolio returns? The combination of which factors best explains expected stock returns?

Download or read book Leaving the Public Capital Market written by Marco Hirsiger and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study investigates going private transactions taking place in the German market between 2000 and early 2011. The primary objective is to analyse the effects of a going private announcement on shareholder wealth and its main drivers as well as the determination of the key characteristics of going private candidates. The results from this analysis are then used to make high level estimates on Public-to-Private (PTP) activity expected in the future. Key findings include the calculated Abnormal Average Return (AAR) of 10.93%, Cumulative Abnormal Return (CAR) of 15.89% as well as the validation that, to some extent, it is possible to predict potential going private candidates based solely on publicly available in-formation and, furthermore, that there is no intra-industry effect observable on the German market.

Download or read book Empirical Findings on the Tax CAPM for the German Capital Market written by Dirk Schmitt and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study deals with theoretical and empirical aspects of the Tax CAPM. Following the theoretical derivation of the Tax CAPM with respect to the German tax system, an empirical investigation was conducted to test the explanatory power of this new capital market model. Using a sample of 29 DAX companies, an average absolute difference of 8.01 percentage points between the estimated Tax CAPM yields and the actual (net) yields could be determined. Additionally, a regression analysis with the Tax CAPM yield as the independent variable was established on the basis of 116 yield observations. This ex post-evaluation shows that the Tax CAPM yields explain the yields actually realised with a highly significant correlation. The null hypothesis that the slope of the regression line equals one as well as the null hypothesis that the intercept adopts the value of zero could not be rejected. On the basis of our results it can be certified that the Tax CAPM describes the process of yield generation of the German blue chips between 2001 and 2004 sufficiently well if it is equipped with the appropriate values for the required model parameters.

Download or read book Corporate Governance and Expected Stock Returns written by Andreas Schillhofer and published by Springer-Verlag. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on his Corporate Governance Rating (CGR) for German firms, Andreas Schillhofer documents a positive relationship between the CGR and firm value. In addition, there is strong evidence that expected returns are negatively correlated with the CGR if dividend yields and price-earnings ratios are used as proxies for the cost of capital.

Download or read book Asset Pricing Factor Models in the German Stock Market written by Julian Fischer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2021 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1,7, University of Hannover (Institut für Finanzwirtschaft und Rohstoffmärkte), language: English, abstract: In this paper, we examine how various modern multifactor models, such as the Carhart factor model, five-factor model and its complement six-factor model by Fama and French, the q-factor model by Hou, Wue and Zhang, and the mispricing factor model by Stambaugh and Yuan perform in the German stock market. It is discernible that, depending on the application model, like factor spanning tests, different sortings, return anomalies, sector- and equity fund investigation, they often provide quite similar explanatory power, while in individual cases sometimes one and sometimes the other model performs better. The underlying factors contribute differently to the explanatory power depending on the time period. Thus, in case of doubt, the six-factor model is preferable, as it is the most versatile model. Since the establishment of the capital asset pricing model as a cornerstone of modern capital market theory in the 1960s, new investigations and studies have been built on this model on an ongoing basis. This continuously leads to extensions and modifications of the asset pricing models since then. These models can be used in various ways, for example to explain the pricing of risky financial assets under restrictive assumptions or to gain important insights into the relationship between expected return and risk of securities. These can be used in various ways, for example to explain the pricing of risky financial assets under restrictive assumptions or to gain important insights into the relationship between expected return and risk of securities. In this paper, we aim to answer the overarching research question of how modern asset pricing models perform for the German stock market. For this purpose, we first discuss the characteristics of the German stock market, followed by the milestones of the development of factor models, their empirical evidence and their factors, as well as internationally known return anomalies. In the subsequent part, five modern asset pricing models are tested in different scenarios of the German stock market, including factor spanning tests, different sortings, anomalies, sectors and in equity funds. For this purpose, various analytical methods are used and performed with the software “Stata”. Finally, the comprehensive results are summarized and concluded.

Download or read book An Empirical Analysis of the German Stock Market written by Horst B. Kutsch and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The German Financial System written by Jan P. Krahnen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is both a reference book on Germany's financial system and a contribution to the economic debate about its status at the beginning of the twenty-first century. In giving a comprehensive account of the many facets of the system, it covers corporate governance, relationship lending, stock market development, investor protection, the venture capital industry, and the accounting system, and reports on monetary transmission and the credit channel, regulation and banking competition, the insurance and investment industry, and mergers and acquisitions. Special chapters at the beginning and at the end of the book adopt the financial system perspective, analysing the mutual fit of different features of the financial system; and each of the fifteen chapters addresses particular myths that surround it. The book is invaluable for those who want to understand the German economy and its financial system, promising not only a compilation of facts and statistics on Germany's financial markets and institutions, but also an analysis of its current structure and the determinants of its future development.

Download or read book What Drives Portfolio Investments of German Banks in Emerging Capital Markets written by Christian Wildmann and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Empirical Analysis of Mutual Funds investing in German Equity 1995 2015 written by Carsten Fritz and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 1,3, University of Regensburg (Centre of Finance), language: English, abstract: Financial markets are as complex as ever due to an accelerating development in the last decades. Especially evaluations of mutual fund performance have been a subject of interest since the introduction of financial services. In this thesis, a study on the performance of mutual funds investing in German equity from July 1995 to June 2015 is conducted. The aim is to find out if fund managers have sufficient skill to generate risk adjusted return in order to cover the cost imposed on the investors. Another purpose is to provide investors with relevant results. Inter alia, Jensen one-factor, Fama and French three-factor and the Carhart four-factor model are used as different benchmark models for performance. Paired bootstrap simulations suggest that, net of cost, a small fraction of fund managers do have sufficient skill to cover cost. For the bottom ranked funds, there is statistical evidence that their poor performance is caused by bad management, rather than by bad luck. The results for gross returns show that there is an unneglectable fraction of fund managers with good performance not due to luck. Compared to net returns, there is stronger evidence of skill, negative as well as positive. Form an investor’s point of view it seems rather beneficial to invest in passively managed vehicles. High costs eat into the return, and they are the main reason why the majority of actively managed funds end up with sub-par performance.

Download or read book Intertemporal Asset Pricing written by Bernd Meyer and published by Physica. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-eighties Mehra and Prescott showed that the risk premium earned by American stocks cannot reasonably be explained by conventional capital market models. Using time additive utility, the observed risk pre mium can only be explained by unrealistically high risk aversion parameters. This phenomenon is well known as the equity premium puzzle. Shortly aft erwards it was also observed that the risk-free rate is too low relative to the observed risk premium. This essay is the first one to analyze these puzzles in the German capital market. It starts with a thorough discussion of the available theoretical mod els and then goes on to perform various empirical studies on the German capital market. After discussing natural properties of the pricing kernel by which future cash flows are translated into securities prices, various multi period equilibrium models are investigated for their implied pricing kernels. The starting point is a representative investor who optimizes his invest ment and consumption policy over time. One important implication of time additive utility is the identity of relative risk aversion and the inverse in tertemporal elasticity of substitution. Since this identity is at odds with reality, the essay goes on to discuss recursive preferences which violate the expected utility principle but allow to separate relative risk aversion and intertemporal elasticity of substitution.

Download or read book Evaluation of the Momentum Strategy on the German Stock Exchange written by Eugen Stumpf and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1.3, University of Applied Sciences Essen, language: English, abstract: This work covers the momentum effect on financial markets and a trading strategy based on this effect. The research focuses on the German Stock Exchange data from the last decade. The data are divided into two sections in order to build two different types of virtual portfolios. One section contains the data of the DAX index, and the second section is filled with securities from the MDAX. Two hypotheses are to be verified. First, is momentum still available in a time of mass internet availability, like during the past decade? And second, is momentum stronger in MDAX due to smaller firm sizes and corresponding lower market efficiency?

Download or read book Size and Book to Market Effects in the German Stock Market 2005 2009 written by David Bosch and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diploma Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 2,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Bank- und Börsenwesen), language: English, abstract: One important goal of this study is to find out, whether the most recent data also shows the same tendency as earlier studies of the German market: A very low relation between beta and average stock returns A higher relationship between size and average stock returns An even higher relation between B/M ratio and average stock returns. In many studies the methodology used to test for the relationship between beta, size, B/M ratio, and stock returns are cross-sectional regressions and two-sorted portfolios. In this study, more weight is put on the ability to predict stock returns by testing these characteristics alone. Usually researchers are interested in the statistical relationship between the characteristics and stock returns. In contrast to this approach, which is especially reasonable for long-term series, this study will focus on the problems with the data and methodology of “anomaly” studies, and will discuss the different economic reasons respective to beta, size, and B/M effects in stock returns. Most of the published studies use long-term series of longer than 30 years, where the stock market returns are quite stable and only small shocks are included. This thesis is organized as follows: In section 2, findings and economic interpretations in the literature about beta, size and B/M, are discussed. The first findings, especially about size and B/M, are briefly reconsidered and recent developments are presented and further discussed. Section 3 describes the data used for the empirical study and discusses the specialties of the data preparation used, when testing for size and B/M effects. The methodologies and results are then presented in section 4. Concluding remarks are found in section 5.

Download or read book The Predictabilty of German Stock Returns written by Judith Klähn and published by Deutscher Universitätsverlag. This book was released on 2000-06-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago, most textbooks on financial management advocated the thesis that stock returns are essentially unpredictable. This theory is called the Random Walk Approach to the development of asset prices. The approach said that the stock market is subject to random changes, which are, by definition, unpredictable. Apparent predictabilities, if ever discovered, were either dismissed as statistical artifacts or as data that cannot be exploited after transaction costs. In the meantime, the world of financial economics has turned upside down. We now realize clearly that returns are indeed predictable to a large extent. Recent studies have confirmed that U.S. stock returns are highly predictable. In this new research context, Judith Klahn posed the question whether German stock returns follow the same pattern. The predictability of German stock returns is the topic of her thesis. She is in a position to identify the relevant variables in the German context. Her basic result is that the driving forces of the German stock market and the U.S. stock market differ in most aspects. According to the Handelsblatt, Judith Klahn's statement is: "Deutscher Aktienmarkt ist kaum mit der Wall Street vergleichbar" (No. 120, June 25, 1999, p. 47).

Download or read book On the Explanatory Power of the Capm and Multifactor Models on the German Stock Market written by Fabio Martin and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: 1,0, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, language: English, abstract: The aim of this thesis is to apply the CAPM and the Fama-French model on the German stock market and to see whether the models hold or not. The research methodology in this thesis is mostly an empirical analysis and adopts the approach of Pamane et. al (2014) and Fama and French (1993). However, I will use a different data set and run the test for the CAPM on single stocks rather than on portfolios in order to avoid covariance problems. Firstly, we will calculate the security market line in a two-step regression and then evaluate the influence of non-linear factors and non-systematic risk factors. In addition, the effects of the financial crisis have to be taken into consideration which is why, dummy variables will be used. However, before we interpret the regression results, we make sure that the data are reliable in the first place and correct them if necessary. For the purpose of assessing the Fama-French model, however, we use a quite different approach and follow the original procedure that was used by Fama and French (1993) themselves. This involves classifying the stocks according to size and value and then building a total of four portfolios. Afterwards, returns are computed and regressed against size and value factors. Even though it is quite common to use, for instance, the DAX or the NASDAQ as proxies, I see the chance of facing endogeneity issues when explaining returns of stocks that are listed in the DAX, which is why I will run all tests for a second time but this time using the MDAX instead of DAX as the market portfolio in order to avoid endogeneity problems.