This paper quantifies the long-term financial effects of strong (weak) corporate social performance (CSP). We contribute to the literature by seeking such effects on a broad range, i.e. different CSP dimensions which are depicted by so-called ESGEc scores - an acronym for environment, social,...

We study the investor behavior on a leading peer-to-business lending platform and identify a new investment mistake – a default shock bias. First, we find that investors stop investing in new loans and cease from diversifying their portfolio after experiencing a loan default. The default...

We empirically study the determinants of failures of microfinance institutions based on the CAMELS rating components and microfinance-specific measures by applying probit regression techniques. Our findings confirm the capital adequacy (C), the asset quality (A), the management capability (M),...

Many financial contracts are equipped with exercise rights or other features enabling the parties to actively shape the contract's payoff. These decisions pose a great challenge for the pricing and hedging of such contracts. Yet, the literature lacks a consistent way of dealing with these...

This article analyses the financial (out-) performance of all listed health care companies. The health care sector outperforms the market in the period from 2000 to June 2015. The performance is driven by companies from Americas and Asia as well as companies from the Pharmaceuticals subsegment....

Option pricing literature is usually concerned with financial contracts whose payoffs depend on decisions by only one of the contract's parties. Generalizations to more complex cases with decisions by both parties are impeded by the ad-hoc nature of many contributions. One prominent example...

We analyze the returns of traders, i.e. signal providers, on social trading platforms and of investors following these traders by utilizing more or less sophisticated investment strategies. It turns out that simply investing in those traders with the highest accumulated returns leads to high...