In diesem Beitrag werden die Auswirkungen des Journal Impact Faktor und anderer Formen der quantitativen Leistungsmessung auf die Arbeit und die Karrieren des sogenannten wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses aus Sicht desselben beleuchtet. Anhand von Interviews mit 20 Wissenschaftlerinnen und...

Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welche Entwicklungen sich in der Metall- und Elektroindustrie seit der Debatte um eine arbeitgeberseitig für notwendig erachtete "Revitalisierung" und von Arbeitssoziologen befürchtete "Vermarktlichung" bzw. "Finalisierung" der Leistungsentlohnung ergaben....

Premier stock exchanges in India, viz. National Stock Exchange of India and Bombay Stock Exchange, introduced call auction in the pre-open session from 18 October 2010. This paper analyzes the impact of introduction of pre-open call auction on price discovery at the open. Empirical analysis is...

This paper investigates whether the market level of information asymmetry affects firms' debt financing decisions. Using a sample of non-financial listed firms and a composite index based on microstructure measures of information asymmetry, we find that firms with more information asymmetry use...

We examine the relation between the gender diversity on boards of corporations and the levels of information asymmetry in the stock market. Prior evidence suggests that the presence of women on director boards increases the quantity and quality of public disclosure by firms, and we therefore...

Se evalúa el rendimiento ex-dividendo en acciones colombianas entre 1999 y 2007, periodo que incluye la conformación en julio de 2001 de la Bolsa de Valores de Colombia, resultado de la integración de tres bolsas previamente existentes. Contrario a la hipótesis de eficiencia de mercado, se...

This article shows how the recent money market disruptions with elevated counterparty risks and uncertainty about the fundamental value of liquidity influenced the trading behaviour of a key dealer in the Euro money market. The complete trading record in the unsecured segment of the money market...

This paper evaluates the impact of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) regulation on information asymmetries. The microstructure models of Madhavan et al. (1997) and Glosten and Harris (1988) are adapted to estimate potential changes in the adverse selection component of...

It is well known that intraday returns tend to reverse the following intraday period, conditional on excess buying pressure on the bid or ask side. This suggests that liquidity providers "overreact" to order imbalance (OIB) by initially altering quotes so much that a negative autocorrelation is...

We examine the soundness of high-frequency trading (HFT) proxies that are widely defined on the limit order book (LOB) information. We use a unique TRTH (Thomson Reuters Tick History) millisecond time-stamped intraday trades and quotes dataset enriched with 10 levels of LOB depth messages for...