Börsengänge (IPOs) gewinnen trotz ihrer ausgeprägten Zyklik sowohl für Unternehmen als auch für Investoren immer mehr an Bedeutung. Spätestens seit dem Börsengang der Deutschen Telekom im Jahr 1996 und dem Aufstieg und Fall des Neuen Marktes sind sie auch in Deutschland einem breiten...

Due to investor relations sections placed on corporate websites shareholders have an access to current information on stock issuers’ activities. This enables investors to participate in discussions on decisions met by a board of a company. Transparent and comprehensible information should...

We test the hypothesis that the marginal benefit of investment in investor relations (IR) is greater in countries where capital market institutions are generally less developed and tailored to a more concentrated ownership structure. We use a large panel of survey-based annual IR rankings of...

We test the hypothesis that the marginal benefit of investment in investor relations (IR) is greater in countries where capital market institutions are generally less developed and tailored to a more concentrated ownership structure. We use a large panel of survey-based annual IR rankings of...

"The inside story of the clash of two of Wall Street's biggest, richest, toughest, most aggressive players--Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman--and the little company caught in the middle. With their unprecedented amounts of capital and their savvy understanding of business, activist investors Carl...

What characterizes successful transnational advocacy work in the EU context? Under what conditions may international civil society networks influence European legislative processes? To answer these questions this article tells the story of an advocacy network in the field of corporate financial...

The disclosure requirements for firms issuing equity on German crowdinvestingplatforms are quite lax at the moment. This paper states that this loose requirement policy is not optimal in the presence of competition among platforms. First, a simple three-staged theoretical model is derived to...