This paper deals with the long-run stock performance after initial public offerings (IPOs) in the German capital market with a larger sample than prior studies and alternative benchmarks (the equally and the value-weighted market portfolio, size portfolios and matching stocks).

This paper deals with the impact of the arrival of public information on the intraday trading of highly liquid stocks quoted on the Paris Bourse.

This paper investigates the relative performance of local and foreign financial analysts on Latin American emerging markets.

This paper documents a relation between the shareholder base and payout policy. Consistentwith the idea that the shareholder base is related to the cost of external financing we find thatfirms with small shareholder bases have lower payout levels and maintain higher cash holdingsthan firms with...

We investigate determinants of launch spreads in European securitizationtransactions over the last decade. First, we develop a simple, reduced-form pricingmodel for all issues across different transaction types and test it. We document thecritical importance of credit ratings without refinements...

Securitisations usually involve creating multiple tranches of a single issue with different characteristics, placed on the market as separate securities. Various theoretical explanations have been advanced to explain such tranching. This paper provides the first systematic testing of such...

This paper examines the price impact of trading intensity on an emerging futures market. Utilizing anovel volume-augmented duration model of price discovery, the intensity effect is decomposed intoliquidity and information components for the MexDer 28-day interest rate futures contract. We...

In this paper, we investigate the German stock market with regard to negative stubvalues or parent company puzzles. These are situations where a firms marketvalue is less than the value of its ownership stake in a publicly traded subsidiary.According to MITCHELL/PULVINO/STAFFORD (2002), negative...

This study examines the lead-lag-relationship between European equity and CDSmarkets in the context of the financial crisis. Previous research identified the stock market tolead the CDS market in an ordinary economic environment. Against the background of ourstudy this lead-lag-relationship...

This paper investigates the relative role of price discovery between two long-term swap contracts that exchange U.S. dollars for Japanese yen - the cross-currency basis swap and the foreign exchange (FX) swap - using structural state space models. Our main findings are that: (i) the currency...