Christian Funke aims at developing a better understanding of a central asset pricing issue: the stock price discovery process in capital markets. Using U.S. capital market data, he investigates the importance of mergers and acquisitions (MA) for stock prices and examines economic links between...

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

Statistische Eigenschaften von Handelsvolumina auf Aktienmärkten -- Theoretische Analysen zur Rolle des Handelsvolumens auf Aktienmärkten -- Kontemporärer Zusammenhang zwischen Aktienrenditen und Handelsvolumina -- Ereignisinduzierte Marktreaktionen: Preis- und Volumenseffekte am Beispiel von...

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...