In this paper we investigate how mutual funds react to the distress of another fund in the same fund family. We test three alternative hypotheses: (1) funds help the distressed fund, (2) funds front-run the distressed fund improving their relative performance in the fund family and, (3) the family coordinates and benefits from front-running the distressed fund. Our results suggest that fund man...

Brecht's relationship to Marxism is extremely important and highly complex. From the 1920s until his death in 1956, Brecht identified himself as a Marxist; when he returned to Germany after World War II, he chose the German Democratic Republic (GDR), where his actress wife Helene Weigel and he formed their own theater troupe, the famed Berliner Ensemble, and were eventually given a state theate...

Law and Social Sciences (HSG) hereby consents to the printing of the present dissertation, without hereby expressing any opinion on the views herein expressed. Acknowledgements Nothing we do, we do on our own. There are always people around who support us, provide us a helping hand when needed, challenge everything we do for a good cause, and inspire us so that we achieve our goals in life. I w...

One of the main contributions which Harald Niederreiter made to mathematics is related to pseudorandom sequences theory. In this article, we improve on a bound on one of the pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) proposed by Harald Niederreiter and Arne Winterhof and study its lattice structure. We obtain that this generator passes general lattice tests for arbitrary lags for high dimensions.

Communism and the Emergence of Democracy examines communism and its demise through the prism of social theory and political thought. After setting out a critique of conventional approaches to post-communist democratization, Harald Wydra develops his arguments in four historical chapters reflecting on the Russian Revolution and Soviet communism; the beginnings of the Cold War, the East European ...

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