We study the role of underwriter compensation in mitigating conflicts of interest between companies going public and their investment bankers. Making the banks compensation more sensitive to the issuers valuation should reduce agency conflicts and thus underpricing.(...)

Since years, incentives for the management have become a standard upon acquisitions of companies by Private Equity Investors - so-called Buy-Outs. However, until this date there are no empirical studies available on the arrangements of management participations and potential conflicts of...

Der weltweite Einbruch der Aktienmärkte – beginnend im Jahr 2000 – sowie die Bilanzskandale im Jahr 2002 katapultierten Finanzanalysten ins Blickfeld der Öffentlichkeit. Kritisiert wurde und wird dabei in erster Linie die mangelnde Objektivität von Researchstudien, die von...

The hedge fund industry has risen in 2007 to the top of the international political agenda, yet the debate surrounding it is limited by a lack of understanding of how the industry functions, or even how it is to be defined. The industry consists largely of investment funds operating from...

This paper studies the effect of disclosing conflicts of interest on strategic communication when the sender has lying costs. I present a simple economic mechanism under which such disclosure often leads to more informative and, at the same time, also to more biased messages. This benefits...