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Introducing a spread into the Kyle model
Salomonsson, Marcus - 2009
The Kyle (1985) model is extended to take into account market maker competition and the spread. It is shown that with a … spread the Kyle model has a Nash equilibrium also with two market makers, not only with three or more, as shown in earlier … research. The spread is endogenized, and two testable predictions of the model are generated. The first is that the spread is …
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Whose trades convey information? Evidence from a cross-section of traders
Menkhoff, Lukas; Schmeling, Maik - 2007
This paper contributes empirically to our understanding of informed traders. It analyzes traders? characteristics in an electronic limit order market via anonymous trader identities. We use six indicators of informed trading in a cross-sectional multivariate approach to identify traders with...
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How do insiders trade?
Augustin, Patrick; Brenner, Menachem; Grass, Gunnar; … - 2016
We characterize how informed investors trade in the options market ahead of corporate news when they receive private, but noisy, information about (i) the timing of the announcement and (ii) its impact on stock prices. Our theoretical framework generates a rich set of predictions about the...
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Informed options strategies before corporate events
Augustin, Patrick; Brenner, Menachem; Grass, Gunnar; … - 2022
We analyze how informed investors trade in the options market ahead of corporate news when they receive private, but noisy, information about the timing and impact of these announcements on stock prices. We propose a framework that ranks options trading strategies (option type, maturity, and...
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Das Gesetz zur Angemessenheit der Vorstandsvergütung
Koch, Rosemarie; Stadtmann, Georg - 2010
Wir analysieren das Gesetz zur Angemessenheit der Vorstandsvergütung. Ferner arbeiten wir einige aufgrund wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Überlegungen zu erwartende Probleme heraus und prognostizieren mögliche ökonomische Auswirkungen des Gesetzes. Des Weiteren gehen wir im Rahmen einer...
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Corporate rent-seeking and the managerial soft-budget constraint: An incremental cash flow approach to some corporate governance issues
Apreda, Rodolfo - 2004
This paper seeks to expand on two topical strands in Government Finance and Political Science literature, rent-seeking and the soft-budget constraint, so as to bring forth a strong linkage with corporate governance environments. It will attempt to accomplish this task by setting up a distinctive...
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Acquisitions as a Real Options Bidding Game
Smit, Han T.J.; van den Berg, Ward A.; Maeseneire, Wouter De - 2004
This paper uses a unified treatment of real options and game theory to examine value appropriation in takeovers within a competitive environment of imperfect information. The integrated model considers a potential target as a shared real option on a bundle of resources. Competing potential...
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Bad Mergers Revisited: An Incentive Perspective
Kräkel, Matthias; Müller, Daniel - 2013
We consider a two-stage principal-agent model with limited liability in which a CEO is employed as agent to gather information about suitable merger targets and to manage the merged corporation in case of an acquisition. Our results show that the CEO systematically recommends targets with low...
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Merger Efficiency and Managerial Incentives
Kräkel, Matthias; Müller, Daniel - 2013
We consider a two-stage principal-agent model with limited liability in which a CEO is employed as agent to gather information about suitable merger targets and to manage the merged corporation in case of an acquisition. Our results show that the CEO systematically recommends targets with low...
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Horizontal Mergers Without Synergies May Increase Consumer Welfare
Stennek, Johan - 2001
Markets with imperfect competition do not induce a cost-minimizing allocation of production between firms. The market's ability to rationalize production is even more limited if costs are private information to firms. Merger in such markets generate an efficiency gain associated with the pooling...
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