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In this research the focus is on emergent behaviour in large groups of stockmarket participants. In contrast to established views of the capital market, we do notassume that market participants make rational investment decisions based on fullinformation about important macroeconomic figures such...
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This citation by Robert Neal and Simon Wheatley from their 1998 article about investorsentiment offers several insights and paves the way for this first chapter by making thefollowing statements: First, the opinion of individual investors on the market isimportant. Second, they are often wrong....
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This paper investigates whether investor sentiment can explain stock returns on theGerman stock market. Based on a principal component analysis, we construct a senti-ment indicator that condenses information of several well-known sentiment proxies. Weshow that this indicator explains the return...
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Applying the framework of conditional event studies shows that equity issues reveal managers‟private information about stock mispricing, which investors only partially discount into stockprices at the seasoned equity offering (SEO) announcement date. Negative abnormal returnsoccur as prices...
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Die London Stock Exchange hat im Jahr 1997 dem Publikum die Möglichkeit eingeräumt, durch die Abgabe von limitierten Ordern bei bestimmten Aktien direkt mit den Händlern zu konkurrieren. Anders als bei der NASDAQ, wurde in London für diese Aktien auch die Verpflichtung für die Händler...
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takeover imposed by the market for corporate control. We complement other empirical studies on managerial compensation and … consists of 51 firms in the U.S. oil industry from 1977 to 1994. Third, we employ ex ante measures of the threat of takeover at … the individual firm level which are superior to ex post measures like actual takeover occurrence or past incidence of …
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This paper investigates the optimal bidding strategy for the initial bidder in takeover contests. In the theoretical …
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takeover risk to the outsourcer.Knowledge translates into cash flows interpreted as asset values modelled as geometricBrownian …
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This paper analyzes the interaction between financial leverage and takeover activity. We develop a dynamic model of …, and takeover terms, in which the bidder with the lowest leverage wins the takeover contest. Based on the resulting … bidder is below the industry average and that acquirers should lever up after the takeover consummation. The model also …
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