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Using NYSE short-sale order data, we investigate whether short-sellers' informational advantage is related to firm earnings and analyst-related events. With a novel decomposition method, we find that while these fundamental event days constitute only 12% of sample days, they account for over 24%...
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We study the effect of algorithmic trading (AT) on market quality between 2001 and 2011 in 42 equity markets around the world. We use exchange co-location service that increases AT as an exogenous instrument to draw causal inferences of AT on market quality. On average, AT improves liquidity and...
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Wir untersuchen Übernahmen deutscher Unternehmen zwischen 1985 und 1993 im Hinblick auf ihren Einfluß auf den Marktwert des Käufers. In Erweiterung bisheriger Studien analysieren wir insbesondere, welche Ereignisse den größten Informationsgehalt haben und damit zu den deutlichsten...
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In dieser Arbeit werden zwei Methoden zur Ermittlung der Eigenkapitalunterlegung von Risikopositionen und die Auswirkungen unterschiedlicher Verteilungsannahmen auf das Value-at-Risk (VaR) untersucht. Die empirischen Ergebnisse basieren auf zwei Beispielportfolios aus DAX-Aktien und einer...
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We document that the emergence of markets for single-name credit default swap (CDS) contracts adversely affects equity market quality. The finding that firms with traded CDS contracts on their debt have less liquid equity and less efficient stock prices is robust across a variety of market...
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We examine product differentiation in the high-frequency trading (HFT) industry, where the “products” are secretive proprietary trading strategies. We demonstrate how principal component analysis can be used to detect underlying strategies that are common to multiple HFT firms, and show that...
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