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extended information environment or more sustainable corporate tax strategies. In cross-sectional tests, we find that the …
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When firms are forced to publicly disclose financial information, credit rating agencies are supposed to improve their … risk assessments. Theory predicts such an information quality effect but also an adverse reputational concerns effect … fundamentals. Analysts tend to give positive private information a lower weight in their risk assessment, while they put a higher …
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markets. This study analyses whether a SRI screening process applied to equities results in a different performance outcome … performance effects of SRI screens. The 29 SRI stock indexes are analysed by single-factor models with benchmarks that closely … approximate the investment universe of the SRI stock indexes and by multi-equation systems that also exploit the information in …
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markets. This study analyses whether a SRI screening process applied to equities results in a different performance outcome … performance effects of SRI screens. The 29 SRI stock indexes are analysed by single-factor models with benchmarks that closely … approximate the investment universe of the SRI stock indexes and by multi-equation systems that also exploit the information in …
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This paper delineates the simultaneous impact of non-anticipated information on first and second moments of the … about the precise price impact of this information. Analyzing the US employment report, we find that headline information is …
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Using a unique, hand-collected database of all venture- backed firms listed on Germany's Neuer Markt, we analyze the history of venture capital financing of these firms before the IPO and the behavior of venture capitalists at the IPO. We can detect significant differences in the behavior and...
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In this paper, we analyze the investment and divestment patterns of different types of venture capitalists. Using a data set em- bracing all venture-backed IPOs that occurred on Germany's Neuer Markt we investigate whether the governance structures, objectives, abilities and track records of...
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We suggest a model of electoral competition between two parties which is extended by a third player : mass media. The classical one-dimensional competition model is changed by introducing an issue-specific sensibility-coefficient and by allowing for non-voting. The winner is selected by majority...
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there are no motives to engage in information gathering in a simple market regime with information asymmetries. In … particular, I show that there are market incentives for established firms to decrease the information gap between network …
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In January 2007, first evidence of an asymmetric pass-through of CO2 emission allowance prices was reported for the German electricity spot market. This paper explores the theoretical basis for such an asymmetry in the context of a supply function bidding duopoly. It interprets fluctuating...
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