There is a wide range of literature on the theory of firm growth with contradictory results. However, hardly any studies touch the determinants of firm growth taking Swiss listed firms into consideration. For this purpose we apply a pooled and fixed effects panel regression to a set of firm...

The literature on corporate financing is quite extensive. However, researchers have so far not shed light on the IPO determining factors in Europe as a whole. This paper addresses three main questions observing more than 9000 IPOs performed during a period from 1991 to 2014. First, the...

Commodities are well known to act anti-cyclical to stocks and are therefore used for portfolio diversification. However, various banks, asset managers and hedge funds were inculpated to speculate with agricultural commodities especially after the food price bubble in 2007/08. This paper aims to...