Over the last two decades, alternative expected return proxies have been proposed with substantially lower variation than realized returns. This helped to reduce parameter uncertainty and to identify many seemingly robust relations between expected returns and variables of interest, which would...

This paper analyzes the determinants of returns generated by European private equity funds. It starts from the presumption that this asset class is characterized by illiquidity, stickiness and segmentation. As a consequence, Gompers and Lerner (2000) have shown that venture deal valuations are...

Liquidity, the ease of trading an asset, strongly varies between different sizes of stock positions. We analyze this aspect using the Xetra Liquidity Measure (XLM), which calculates daily, weighted spread for impatient traders transacting against the limit order book. For this measure, we have...

Recently, some European Union member states implemented corporate tax rules restricting the deductibility of interest payments. Most prominently, Denmark extended its thin capitalization rule by an interest stripping rule restricting a firm's interest deductions to 80 percent of EBIT. Similar...

Private equity funds and hedge funds are both alternative asset classes that are continuously growing in importance. Although they have different focuses, they share some characteristics. First of all, both have or allegedly have a significant impact on the economy as well as the financial...

This paper analyzes the determinants of returns generated by private equity funds. It starts from the presumption that this asset class is characterized by illiquidity, stickiness, and segmentation. As a consequence, Gompers and Lerner (2000) have shown that venture deal valuations are driven by...

In this paper we address the question whether insider ownership affectscorporate performance. Evidence from studies dealing with Anglo-Saxoncountries is rather inconclusive, especially because results seem to be significantly affected by endogeneity. Economically, this is due to the fact that in...

It is well-known from US-related studies that investors systematically overreact to accrual-based accounting information. We address the question to what extent this accrual anomaly is related to different accounting standards. We provide empirical evidence that the accrual anomaly is also...

This paper presents a cash flow based analysis of the return and risk characteristics of European Private Equity Funds. For that purpose a comprehensive data set has been provided by Thomson Venture Economics. We document the typical time pattern of cash flows for European private equity funds....