This study investigates the impact of firm size on shareholder value by examining the cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) around foreign direct investment (FDI) announcements. We find that firm size, as measured by the logarithm of its asset, is positively correlated with CAR when CAR is negative,...

We use wavelet analysis to examine the impact of macro-news announcements on the stock-bond correlation. Significant announcement effects appear after controlling for the recent financial crisis, with a link between the speed of reaction and the timing of announcements, with early released news...

Does mobile internet distract “connected investors” from participating in financial markets? We examine this limited attention hypothesis using exogenous outages of the Blackberry Internet Service (BIS). We find that trading volume and trading frequency surge by 6% on days when BIS...

Die erheblichen Turbulenzen an den Finanzmärkten, die Talfahrten von Aktienkursen sowie die Veränderung der relativen Attraktivität unterschiedlicher Anlageformen beeinflussen die Investitionsentscheidungen von Anlegern. In der Studie untersucht das HWWI die Rentabilität von Investitionen in...

By means of an event study of stock market reactions to the announcement of the Olympic Games host cities, we find a significant and positive announcement effect of hosting the Summer Games, with a cumulative abnormal return of about 2% within a few days. We do not find any significant results...