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...

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...

This dissertation consists of three empirical studies on capital market efficiency in a broader sense. Two of the three papers are dedicated to the examination of short-term stock-returns in the wake of large one-day price changes – positive or negative. If significant abnormal returns can be...