Limited investor attention allows overvalued companies to engage in stock-financed acquisitions of listed target firms without experiencing significant reductions in existing valuations. Our robust findings show that overvalued stock-paying acquirers that are subject to limited investor...

Many commentators have suggested that companies pay top executives with deferred compensation, a type of incentive known as inside debt. Recent SEC disclosure reforms greatly increased the transparency of deferred compensation. We investigate stockholder and bondholder reactions to companies’...

Using theories from the behavioral finance literature to predict that investors are attracted to industries with more salient outcomes and that therefore firms in such industries have higher valuations, we find that firms in industries that have high industry-level dispersion of profitability...

Diese Dissertation adressiert die zum Thema Fallen Angel Aktien bestehende Forschungslücke. Dabei kann sie Anlegern zu besseren Investmententscheidungen und die bestehende Kluft zwischen den Investmentstilen Value und Growth überbrücken helfen. Erstmalig wird ein systematischer und empirisch...