Today we live in a post-truth and highly digitalized era characterized by a flow of (mis-) information around the world. Identifying the impact of this information on stock markets and forecasting stock returns and volatilities has become a much more difficult task, perhaps almost impossible....

Using a data set of German stocks that includes the financial crisis, this paper identifies market liquidity as the main driver of return seasonality. In comparison, the economic significance of order flow imbalance is markedly weaker. Applying panel regressions and controlling for unobserved...

We examine stock prices and the number of stocks traded around ex-dividend dates of German stocks with tax-free dividend. Tax-free dividends are temporarily tax-exempt, as they reduce the initial purchasing price of a stock. With our analysis of this particular group of German stocks, we can...

Durch die empirische kapitalmarktorientierte Untersuchung ("event study") von 419 Übernahmen und Fusionen im Zeitraum von 1996 bis 2001 wird die Entwicklung von Börsenkursen bei Ankündigung und Durchführung von Transaktionen auf dem deutschen Markt für Unternehmenskontrolle analysiert....