We show that portfolio sorts, as widely used in empirical asset pricing, tend to misattribute cross-sectional return predictability to the firm characteristic underlying the sort. Such misattribution arises if the sorting variable correlates with a firm-specific effect capturing unobservable...

We show that portfolio sorts, as widely used in empirical asset pricing, tend to misattribute cross-sectional return predictability to the firm characteristic underlying the sort. Such misattribution arises if the sorting variable correlates with a firm-specific effect capturing unobservable...

In dieser Dissertation werden drei Fragestellungen der Corporate Finance empirisch beantwortet. Kapitel 1 untersucht die negativen Auswirkungen auf Investitionen und Unternehmensfinanzierungsaktivitäten im Realsektor, die im Rahmen der Finanzkrise 2007-09 durch den Kollaps von drei führenden...