Market liquidity is the ease of trading an asset. Its risk is the potential loss, because a security can only be traded at high or prohibitive costs. While the omnipresence and importance of market liquidity is widely acknowledged, it has long remained a more or less elusive concept. Treatment...

Market liquidity risk, the difficulty or cost of trading assets in crises, has been recognized as an important factor in risk management. Literature has already proposed several models to include liquidity risk in the standard Value-at-Risk framework. While theoretical comparisons between those...

We integrate liquidity risk measured by the weighted spread into a Value-at-Risk (VaR) framework. The weighted spread measure extracts liquidity costs by order size from the limit order book. We show that it is precise from a risk perspective in a wide range of clearly defined situations. Using...

Es steht außer Frage, dass die Überwindung der Covid-19-Krise und die damit verbundene Bereinigung von Bankbilanzen einen erheblichen Finanzierungs-, aber auch Risikoübernahmebedarf auslösen wird. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich zu Recht die Frage, wie die bisher dominierende Form der...

Studies show the inconclusive results regarding the relation between corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSR and CER) and expected returns. We argue that the reason for these mixed results is that the sustainability premium (i.e., the return difference of high-intensity minus...

In dem hier vorgelegten Beitrag wurden die durch eine Nennwertumstellung verursachten Kursreaktionen untersucht. Auf der Grundlage theoretischer Überlegungen wurde zunächst angeregt, sich bei der Erklärung dieser Kursreaktionen auf ein Kursprozeß-Liquiditäts-Modell zu stützen....

Around the world (with the U.S. and U.K. as exceptions) concentrated ownership structures and controlling shareholders are predominant even among listed firms. We provide novel empirical evidence how such controlling shareholders, in particular founding families, affect payout policy decisions....

We analyze the risk, return and cash flow characteristics of infrastructure investments by using a unique dataset of deals done by private equity-like investment funds. We show that infrastructure deals have a performance that is higher than that of noninfrastructure deals, despite lower default...