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Market liquidity is the ease of trading an asset. Its risk is the potential loss, because a security can only be traded … at high or prohibitive costs. While the omnipresence and importance of market liquidity is widely acknowledged, it has … long remained a more or less elusive concept. Treatment of liquidity risk is still under development. This paper provides …
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We examine the relation between market liquidity and ownership concentration and the effect of different types of … blockholders on stock market liquidity in Germany. For the overall sample high ownership concentration is negatively related to … market liquidity as measured by an order-size-dependent volume-weighted spread measure, which is called Xetra liquidity …
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We examine the impact of reported insider trading on market liquidity, as measured by an order-size-dependent volume …-weighted spread measure, which is called Xetra liquidity measure (XLM). This relationship is scrutinized for the German market both in … very active, most likely to hide their information based trading in higher trading volumes. We discover that the liquidity …
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In an attempt to match US bankruptcy law, many European countries have reformed their insolvency laws towards a regime that fosters corporate restructuring. This paper evaluates the implications of these reforms. Based on a staggered difference-in-differences analysis around eight insolvency...
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This study examines how family firm characteristics affect capital structure decisions. In our analysis we disentangle the influence of three distinct components of a family firm: ownership, supervisory and management board activities by the founding family. Thereby, we use a unique panel...
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We analyse to what extent the accrual anomaly is related to the choice of the accounting system as well as firm-level heterogeneity in corporate governance mechanisms. Using a unique dataset of listed German firms over the period 1995 to 2005 we first corroborate former results indicating that...
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Around the world (with the U.S. and U.K. as exceptions) concentrated ownership structures and controlling shareholders are predominant even among listed firms. We provide novel empirical evidence how such controlling shareholders, in particular founding families, affect payout policy decisions....
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Market liquidity is the ease of trading an asset. Its risk is the potential loss, because a security can only be traded … at high or prohibitive costs. While the omnipresence and importance of market liquidity is widely acknowledged, it has … long remained a more or less elusive concept. Treatment of liquidity risk is still under development. This paper provides …
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Market liquidity risk, the difficulty or cost of trading assets in crises, has been recognized as an important factor … in risk management. Literature has already proposed several models to include liquidity risk in the standard Value … benchmarked. This paper performs comparative back-tests of daily risk forecasts for a large selection of traceable liquidity risk …
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In January 2010 the Deutsche Börse Group introduced two family firm stock indices. Both indices are calculated as price and performance indices and extend the number of investment strategy indices of Deutsche Börse Group. The DAXplus Family is an all-share index whereas the DAXplus Family 30...
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