This paper deals with optimal financial contracts which simultaneously provide payincentives and impose constraints on managerial control.

Der Erwerb eigener Aktien ist in den letzten Jahren auch in Deutschland populärer geworden.Die meisten DAX-30 Unternehmen lassen sich routinemäßig zum Erwerb eigener Aktien ermächtigenund Rückkaufprogramme großen Umfangs sind an der Tagesordnung1. Von den30iger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts...

In this study, we investigate the presence of survivorship content and accuracy bias in the two mostly used databases for research in the UK equities market

The paper shows that financial market equilibria need not exist if agents possess cumulative prospect theory preferences with piecewise-power value functions. The reason is an infiniteshort-selling problem. But even when a short-sell constraint is added, non-existence can occur due to...

This paper investigates (i) the robustness of hindsight bias in experimental assetmarkets, (ii) the time invariance of the different experimental risk elicitationmethods of certainty equivalents and binary lottery choices, and (iii) their correspondence.The results of our within-subjects...

This paper investigates the relationship between annual report disclosure, market liquidity, and capitalcost for firms registered on the Deutsche Börse. Disclosure is comprehensively measured using the innovativeArtificial Intelligence Measurement of Disclosure (AIMD). Results show that annual...