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...

We examine the predictability of 299 capital market anomalies enhanced by 30 machine learning approaches and over 250 models in a dataset with more than 500 million firm-month anomaly observations. We find significant monthly (out-of-sample) returns of around 1.8–2.0%, and over 80% of the...

We propose a novel method to forecast corporate earnings, which combines the accuracy of analysts’ forecasts with the unbiasedness of a cross-sectional model. We build on recent insights from the earnings forecasts literature to improve analysts’ forecasts in two ways: reducing their...

We identify the characteristics and specifications that drive the out-of-sample performance of machine-learning models across an international data sample of nearly 1.9 billion stock-month-anomaly observations from 1980 to 2019. We demonstrate significant monthly value-weighted (long-short)...

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...

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...