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This paper investigates the relationships between management turnovers and fund performance, by using data for the German equity mutual funds in the period from 1994 to 2009. Evidence shows that the future performance of prior over-average performing funds (winner funds) declines in the first...
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The paper analyzes internal factors which influence the use of equity - and mezzanine-based financing instruments in German privately held family firms. Based on a sample of 195 surveys of family firms, we investigate the impact of family specific goals and corporate governance structures on the...
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We analyze transactions by corporate insiders in Germany. We find that insider trades are associated with significant abnormal returns. Insider trades that occur prior to an earnings announcement have a larger impact on prices. This result provides a rationale for the UK regulation that...
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Until October 2004 corporate insiders in Germany were required to report trades in the shares of their firm "without delay". In practice substantial reporting delays were common. We show that the delays are systematically related to the characteristics of the firm. Delays are longer in...
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The German Corporate Governance Code works according to the comply-or-explain principle. One of its recommendations was to publish the remuneration of the members of the executive board on an individual basis. We examine the characteristics of the firms that comply with the code requirement. Our...
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firm collateral values. Firms significantly change their debt structure: they increase their bank but also arm's length … financing and they decrease more expensive types of debt in response to collateral value appreciation. These results indicate …
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This paper presents a first empirical examination of all available German mini-bond offerings between 2010 and 2015. We compare the default probability according to a mini-bond's initial rating with that implied by credit risk models, and show that rating agencies can create rating inflation by...
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Family firms are an important phenomenon of the German capital market. We analyse the broadest market segment of the German Stock Exchange, the CDAX, for the years 1998 to 2008. According to a founding-family definition almost half of all CDAX-listed non-financial firms in Germany can be...
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Germany is the largest economy in Europe and yet there has been very little research in the area of shareholder activism. Main objective of this research paper is to discuss shareholder activism for DAX 30 companies. We provide the most recent empirical evidence that formal activism in Germany...
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The global financial crisis significantly affected the viability of the financial system and the structure of equity markets. In this study, we investigate the phenomenon of family and non-family firms' delisting decisions from the Prime Standard, the highest regulated stock market segment in...
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