We examine the relationship between CEO ownership and stock market performance. Firms in which the CEO voluntarily holds a considerable share of outstanding stocks outperform the market by more than 10% p.a. after controlling for traditional risk factors. The effect is most pronounced in firms...

Most analyses of the recent financial crisis in the US focus on the consequences of the dramatic slump in housing prices that started in the mid-2000s, which led to rising mortgage defaults, shrinking home equity credit and liquidity in the banking system. Yet these accounts do not explain what...

In zahlreichen empirischen Studien zum US Fondsmarkt wird der Zusammenhang zwischen Fondszuflüssen und verschiedenen möglichen Determinanten wie z.B. der vergangenen Performance untersucht (vgl. z.B. Sirri/Tufano (1998), Kempf/Ruenzi (2005) u.a.). Da Daten zu Fondszuflüssen für amerikanische...