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Stock market returns, corporate governance and capital market equilibrium
Parigi, Bruno; Pelizzon, Loriana; Thadden, Ernst-Ludwig von - 2013
This paper proposes a theoretical model that incorporates corporate governance into the basic CAPM, where corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212666
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Protecting investors in equity crowdfunding : an empirical analysis of the small investor protection act
Göthner, Maximilian; Hornuf, Lars; Regner, Tobias - 2020
During the past decade, equity crowdfunding (ECF) has emerged as an alternative funding channel for startup firms. In Germany, the Small Investor Protection Act became binding in July 2015, with the legislative goal to protect investors engaging in this new asset class. Since then, investors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226836
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Diversification and ownership concentration
Parigi, Bruno (contributor); Pelizzon, Loriana (contributor) - 2005
-controlling shareholders are different because the former are able to divert a fraction of the profits. We find that when investor protection … by the non-controlling shareholders. The empirical analysis supports the predictions of the model. In particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003203441
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The effect of corporate taxation and ownership on raising shareholder capital
Krämer, Robert; Lipatov, Vilen - 2013
model with strategic interaction between managers and outside shareholders, we hypothesize that, while an increase in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199748
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Punish one, teach a hundred : the sobering effect of punishment on the unpunished
D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Xie, Jin - 2019
Direct experience of a peer's punishment might make non-punished peers reassess the probability and consequences of facing punishment and hence induce a change in their behavior. We test this mechanism in a setting, China, in which we observe the reactions to the same peer's punishment by listed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973941
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Mavericks, universal, and common owners : the largest shareholders of U.S. public firms
Amel-Zadeh, Amir; Kasperk, Fiona; Schmalz, Martin C. - 2022
We construct a novel data set to show that, between 2003-2020, up to one-fifth of America's largest firms had a non-financial blockholder or insider as their largest shareholder. Blockholders and insiders tend to be less diversified than institutional investors. Measures of "universal" and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013365123
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The dynamics of households' stock market beliefs
Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von; Wogrolly, Axel - 2019
We analyse a long panel of households' stock market beliefs to gain insights into the nature of their expectations formation processes. We classify respondents into one of five groups based on their data and estimate group-wise models of expectations formation. Two of the groups are at opposite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996781
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Revealing downturns
Schmalz, Martin C.; Zhuk, Sergey - 2018
When Bayesian risk-averse investors are uncertain about their assets' cash flows' exposure to systematic risk, stock prices react more to news in downturns than in upturns, implying higher volatility in downturns and negatively skewed returns. The reason is that, in good times, less desirable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794118
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All in the family or public? : law and appropriative costs as determinants of ownership structure
Castillo C., Ramón; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2003
We examine how the legal protection of outside shareholders and the appropriative costs that they induce influence the … incentives for private firms to go public. A higher degree of protection of shareholders can increase the appropriative costs … associated with the conflict between managers and shareholders. To counteract this effect the managers/owners increase the share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507775
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The frequency of one-day abnormal returns and price fluctuations in the FOREX
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Plastun, Alex; Oliinyk, Viktor - 2020
This paper analyses the explanatory power of the frequency of abnormal returns in the FOREX for the EURUSD, GBRUSD, USDJPY, EURJPY, GBPCHF, AUDUSD and USDCAD exchange rates over the period 1994-2019. Abnormal returns are detected using a dynamic trigger approach; then the following hypotheses...
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