We investigate whether investor reactions to the announcement of a new outside director appointment significantly depend upon the director's experience in the appointing firm's industry. Our sample includes 688 outside director appointments to boards of S&P 500 companies from 2005 to 2010. We...

In dieser Dissertation werden drei Corporate-Finance-Fragestellungen empirisch analysiert. Kapitel 1 untersucht, ob ein Zusammenhang besteht zwischen dem Ergebnis von Aktionärsabstimmungen zu Unternehmensübernahmen und kurzfristigen Kursreaktionen, sowie kurz- und langfristiger...

We study how securities analysts influence managers' use of different types of earnings management. To isolate causality, we employ a quasi-experiment that exploits exogenous reductions in analyst following resulting from brokerage house mergers. We find that managers respond to the coverage...

This paper investigates the announcement effects of contingent convertible securities (CoCo bonds) issued by global banks between January 2009 and June 2014. Using a sample of 34 financial institutions and 87 CoCo bond issues, we examine abnormal stock price reactions and CDS spread changes...