Firms significantly reduce their investment in response to non-fundamental drops in the stock price of their product-market peers. We argue that this result arises because of managers' limited ability to filter out the noise in stock prices when using them as signals about their investment...

Alexander Bantz untersucht, ob Informationen der IFRS-Finanzberichterstattung für die Gestaltung wertorientierter Kennzahlen bei einer Konvergenz im Allgemeinen und im Speziellen bei Fair Value-Bilanzierung geeignet sind. Er zeigt Möglichkeiten und Grenzen Fair Value-basierter wertorientierter...

We analyze the firm-level and aggregate consequences of equity market imperfections in the form of noisy information aggregation for corporate risk-taking and investment. Market imperfections cause controlling shareholders to invest too much in upside risks and too little in downside risks in an...

We investigate the decision rules for corporate investment by designing a company value frontier. This company value frontier allows for balancing the financial value and social and environmental impacts. This article develops novel value concepts-ranging from shareholder value to shareholder...