A key objective of shareholder activists is to persuade a firm’s management to change its strategy. CFOs play an important role in negotiations, nonetheless activism research mainly focuses on CEOs. We examine the relationship between CFO overconfidence and the likelihood to get targeted by...

Factor investing has become very popular during the last decades, especially with respect to equity markets. After extending Fama-French factors to corporate bond markets, recent research more often concentrates on the government bond space and reveals that there is indeed clear empirical...

Die Studie untersucht die Auswirkungen von Unternehmensübernahmen und Zusammenschlüssen in der internationalen Agrarindustrie auf die Kapitalmarktbewertung der beteiligten Unternehmen. Die Stichprobe umfasst 295 weltweite Transaktionen in einem Untersuchungszeitraum von 1994 bis 2013. Die...