Portfolio selection has been in the focus of financial research for at least thirty years. With a hand-collected data set containing information about the portfolio structure of private and institutional investors our paper gives a brief literature review and sheds light on the home bias effect...

We examine whether underwriters have an information advantage over other institutional investors in new public companies. We focus our attention on a sample of publicly traded firms that have become the target of an IPO-related securities class action lawsuit filed under Section 11 of the 1933...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Framework of Financial Water Risk -- Chapter 2: Drivers of water risk and their interaction -- Chapter 3: Water risk and climate change -- Chapter 4: Interaction effects of water risk in finance and society -- Chapter 5: Opportunities from water risk -- Part...