The existing literature shows that, due to locality and familiarity, spatial investor-firm adjacency plays a key role in determining stock investor attention, as proxied by the location where investors initiate an Internet search of the ticker symbol. This paper investigates whether Chinese...

This dissertation consists of three empirical studies on capital market efficiency in a broader sense. Two of the three papers are dedicated to the examination of short-term stock-returns in the wake of large one-day price changes – positive or negative. If significant abnormal returns can be...

Welche Wirkungen hat Insiderhandel auf die Wohlfahrt des Insiders und anderer Marktakteure sowie auf Marktpreise und -umsätze? Karin Niehoff entwickelt Modelle, die sich im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen Literaturquellen auf Märkte mit Gesamtkursermittlung und fortlaufendem Handel beziehen....

We investigate whether access to information prior to an IPO generates a trading advantage after the IPO. We find that limited partners (LPs) of venture capital funds obtain high returns when they invest in newly listed stocks backed by their funds. These returns are not explained by LPs'...