Mit finanzieller Unterstützung der Stiftung Ecoscientia und des NCCR FINRISK(National Centre of Competence in Research „Financial Valuation and RiskManagement“) hat das Institut für schweizerisches Bankwesen der UniversitätZürich eine Neuauflage der je in den Jahren 2000, 2002, 2004,...

Using a new data set of small public firms in Germany, this paper analyzes the incentive and entrenchmenteffects associated witrh mangerial equity owernership. The relationship between firm value and insider ownership is found to be nonlinear: at low levels of ownership firm value is positive...

Empirical investigations of analysts forecast surveys concerning earnings realizations find significant time varying biases usually attributed to the analysts liability to cognitive limitations. For example, a positive autocorrelation of analysts forecast errors is commonly explained by...