We examine the relationship between CEO ownership and stock market performance. Firms in which the CEO voluntarily holds a considerable share of outstanding stocks outperform the market by more than 10 percent p.a. after controlling for traditional risk factors. The effect is most pronounced in...

The CAPM is a powerful tool to analyse stock markets. Yet, empirical anomalies remain, e.g.: the equity premium or low risk free interest rate puzzle, IPO stock price behavior around unlock dates and high trading volumes. This paper links corporate finance and asset pricing models and derives...

The CAPM is a powerful tool to analyse stock markets. Yet, empirical anomalies remain, e.g.: the equity premium or low risk free interest rate puzzle, IPO stock price behavior around unlock dates and high trading volumes. This paper links corporate finance and asset pricing models and derives...

We examine the relationship between CEO ownership and stock market performance. A strategy based on public information about managerial ownership delivers annual abnormal returns of 4 to 10%. The effect is strongest among firms with weak external governance, weak product market competition, and...

Arbitrage-free asset pricing theory suggests that equilibrium price and equilibrium value of a firm coincide and correctly anticipate the equilibrium effort of a value-enhancing manager, called the distinguished player. This article shows that in equilibrium investors trade shares of such a firm...

It is generally presumed that strengthening the enforcement of lender rights expands the set of incentive compatible loan contracts, resulting in increased access to credit for all types of borrowers. This is based on an implicit assumption of inlnitely elastic supply of loans. With inelastic...

We consider a public firm characterized by a moral hazard problem. A distinguished player is a CEO or activist shareholder who (i) is unrestricted to trade shares and (ii) has discretion to increase the value of this firm by exerting costly effort. Von Lilienfeld-Toal and Ru ̈nzi (2014)...

It is generally presumed that strengthening the legal enforcement of lender rights increases credit access for all borrowers, by expanding the set of incentive-compatible loan contracts. This presumption is based on an implicit assumption of infinitely elastic supply of loans. With inelastic...