The objective of this study is to investigate the long-run performance of initial public offerings (IPO) in Germany for the period from 1977 to 1995. Of particular interest is to examine whether underpricing and the timing of subsequent seasoned equty offerings (SEO) may help to explain why some...

We study for a sample of international mergers and acquisitions the effectiveness of three takeover bidding strategies first in preventing bidder contests and second, if a contest has occurred, in increasing the probability of a successful offer. Our results indicate that support for the...

We study the time-varying risk exposures of US bank holding companies for the 1986–2012 period by decomposing total bank risk into systematic banking-industry risk, systematic market-wide risk, and idiosyncratic bank risk. Banking-industry risk factors directly relate to the banks’ financial...

The sovereign debt crisis challenged investors in European government bonds to deal with volatile interest rate spreads. For managing sovereign risk, “Eurex” introduced futures contracts on Italian government bonds reflecting risks of lower rated countries. We analyze hedging strategies for...

This study investigates the motives and valuation effects of share repurchase announcements of German firms during the 1998-2008 period, addressing the question why initial public offering (IPO) firms repurchase shares soon after going public. While our focus is on IPO firms, we also examine the...

In dieser Studie wird die Qualität der individuellen Gewinnprognosen von Finanzanalysten sowie deren Effizienz relativ zu einer naiven Random-Walk-Prognose untersucht. Die Datenbasis für die Untersuchung umfasst 171.281 Gewinnprognosen für Unternehmen des deutschen Kapitalmarktes. Die...

In dieser Studie wird die Qualität der individuellen Gewinnprognosen von Finanzanalysten sowie deren Effizienz relativ zu einer naiven Random-Walk-Prognose untersucht. Die Datenbasis für die Untersuchung umfasst 171.281 Gewinnprognosen für Unternehmen des deutschen Kapitalmarktes. Die...

In recent years, the use of stock options as an incentive compensation scheme has evolved to be one of the most debated topics in the finance literature as well as in the corporate world. The investigations into the option granting practices at a number of U.S. firms, which were accused of...

In this study we analyze the IPO exit behavior of venture capitalists (VCs) in the Neuer Markt, the former market for young growth companies in Germany. We find empirical evidence that VCs were able to time their exit quite successfully in the primary market and to some extent also in the...