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Kolokolova, Olga - 2009

Leistung von Hedgefonds und der optimalen Portfolioauswahl untersucht werden.Das erste Kapitel dieser Doktorarbeit beschäftigt … sich mit dem Problem der nicht dokumentierten Erträge nach dem "delisting" des Hedgefonds. Es handelt sich um eine …-Renditen, basierend auf einem Dach-Hedgefond vorgeschlagen. Hierbei repräsentiert ein Dach-Hedgefonds ein Portfolio von Hedgefonds, welche …

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Hedge Funds : Alternative Investment Strategies and Portfolio Models

Mader, Wolfgang - 2005

Gegenstand der Arbeit sind verschiedene qualitative und quantitative Aspekte von Hedgefonds, welche f?r ein umfassendes … Verst?ndnis der Anlageklasse von zentraler Bedeutung sind. Die Arbeit enth?lt daher zun?chst eine Einf?hrung zu Hedgefonds … einzelnen Hedgefonds-Handelsstrategien, den zugeh?rigen Risikofaktoren und den spezifischen Eigenschaften von Dachhedgefonds …

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Beitr?ge zum Risikomanagement in Wertsch?pfungsnetzwerken

Wiesent, Julia - 2011

Eine langfristige und nachhaltige Steigerung des Unternehmenswerts als zentrales Unternehmensziel fordert eine konsequente, wertorientierte Ausrichtung aller Unternehmensteile und -aktivit?ten. Das Risikomanagement, welches stets im Rahmen einer integrierten Betrachtung von Ertrags- und...

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INVESTOR OVERLAP AND DIFFUSION OF DISCLOSURE PRACTICES

Jung, Michael J - 2010

This paper examines how one firm’s commitment to provide more public disclosure affects other firms’ disclosure practices in subsequent periods. I develop an investor demand-driven explanation for why and when firms adopt the disclosure innovation of a first-mover firm. I test the hypothesis...

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Institutional Investors and International Expansion in Restaurant Industry

Oak, Seonghee; Upneja, Arun - 2010

Although U.S. restaurant firms face high risks in diversifying their operations internationally, there are no previous studies that motivate international diversification. If international diversification is risky then why do restaurant firms go abroad? This study focuses on one potential...

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Institutional ownership and dividend policy: A framework based on tax clientele, information signaling and agency costs.

Zaghloul Bichara, Lina - 2008

This study is an empirical examination of a new theory that links dividends to institutional ownership in a framework of both information signaling and agency costs. Under this theory put forth by Allen, Bernardo and Welch in 2000, dividends are paid out to attract tax-favored institutional...

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Accounting-based earnings management and real activities manipulation

Yu, Wei - 2008

In the first essay, I examine the association between auditor industry specialization and earnings management choices. Prior research suggests that industry specialist auditors constrain accounting-based earnings management. But such actions may cause client companies to seek alternative means...

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Individual and Institutional Investor Behavior.

Stoffman, Noah S. - 2008

The first chapter analyzes both the disposition effect and trading performance at the individual level to determine whether and how investors learn from their trading experience. The study finds that performance improves and the disposition effect declines as investors become more experienced,...

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Essays in corporate finance

Laranjeira, Bruno d. - 2011

This thesis presents two essays in Corporate Finance. In the first essay, I use the August 2007 crisis episode to gauge the effect of financial contracting on real firm behavior. I identify heterogeneity in financial contracting at the onset of the crisis by exploiting ex-ante variation in...

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Asset Pricing in Emerging Capital Markets: Stock Returns, Trading Volume, and Returns Volatility

Gebka, Bartosz - 2005

In this thesis, I investigate diverse aspects of capital market efficiency in selected emerging markets. In chapter 2, the focus of analysis is on the role of trading volume and capitalisation in the process of information absorption by the stock prices. Empirical analysis is conducted for...

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