Frank Ecker examines the performance of U.S. initial public offerings (IPOs) from 1980 to 2002. He links positive and negative abnormal returns to the deviation of the realized information risk from the expected information risk. The author proposes effective measures for a long-term profitable...

Literaturübersicht über empirische Studien und theoretische Erklärungsansätze -- Darstellung und Bewertung von Erklärungsmodellen des Underpricing-Phänomens auf Basis der Agency-Theorie sowie Ableitung von Hypothesen zur Überprüfung von Einflussfaktoren -- Empirische Untersuchung des...

Gaston Michel investigates whether shocks to real estate markets constitute an important source of the risk that is priced in the cross section of equity returns. His results document that real estate risk explains a large part of the cross-sectional variation in equity returns. He shows that an...

During recent years, an increasing number of corporations have decided to raise external capital via markets for hybrid securities. Hybrid securities share characteristics of common stock and straight debt and appear in different forms, such as convertible debt, mandatory convertibles or...

Seit Mitte der 90er Jahre hat ein Börsengang als Instrument der Eigenkapitalbeschaffung im Mittelstand zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Berg- und Talfahrt der Kapitalmärkte in den Jahren von 1997 bis 2004 hat dabei zu einer neuen Qualität von Börsengängen und den damit verbundenen...

Warum sind Mittelstandsanleihen überhaupt entstanden? -- Die Erfolgskriterien einer Mittelstandsanleihe -- Die Platzierung der Mittelstandsanleihe -- Das Modell der Börse München -- Wie entwickeln sich Anleihen an den Börsen – eine Bestandsaufnahme.

Literature Review -- Return Predictability and the Real Economy -- Study Design and Data -- Empirical Part I - Testing for Predictability -- Forecasting Models -- Empirical Part II - Investment Strategies -- Conclusion

Philip Radner analyzes equity financing phenomena and researches IPO underpricing and SEO announcement effects using data sets for US REITs. Moreover, he discusses underpricing theories and their applicability in the REIT context and gives a theoretical background on IPOs and on underpricing in...

Preface -- Chapter 1 Opening Address -- Chapter 2 What Makes an Exchange a Unique Institution? -- Chapter 3 Mid-Day Address -- Chapter 4 Competitive Challenges in the Marketplace -- Chapter 5 Wherein lie the Growth Opportunities? -- Chapter 6 IPO Capital Raising in the Global Economy -- Chapter...

Over the past two decades, equity carve-outs (ECOs) have become an increasingly popular form of corporate restructuring in Europe. Individual business segments are separated from the parent conglomerate company, and a minority stake is listed on the stock exchange. The parent company thus...