This paper deals with applies regime-switching models to assess the effects of different regimes of volatility in asset pricing.

This study analyzes the accuracy of forecasted target prices within analysts’ reports. We compute a measurefor target price forecast accuracy that evaluates the ability of analysts to exactly forecast the ex-ante (unknown)12-month stock price. Furthermore, we determine factors that explain...

Using a panel of 425 European firms over the period from 1990 to 2005, we revisit Welch's (2004) finding that stock returns are the primary determinant of capital structure changes and that the corporate motives for issuing activities remain largely unexplained. We document that about half of...

This paper empirically investigates the impact of both the first release of analysts' stock recommendations to a limited clientele and the subsequent dissemination of the same information in a major newspaper to a broader audience. For a sample of 1460 stock recommendations published in FuW,...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Main Features of the Banking Business Model -- Chapter 3. Valuing a Bank in Going Concern -- Chapter 4. Banks M&a: Strategy and Valuation -- Chapter 5. Valuation in Resolution -- Chapter 6. Valuation in Liquidation -- Chapter 7. Loan Valuation -- Chapter 8....