Selected Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing

Selected Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing
Author: Christian Funke
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2008-09-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3834998141

Christian Funke aims at developing a better understanding of a central asset pricing issue: the stock price discovery process in capital markets. Using U.S. capital market data, he investigates the importance of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for stock prices and examines economic links between customer and supplier firms. The empirical investigations document return predictability and show that capital markets are not perfectly efficient.

Three Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing in International Equity Markets

Three Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing in International Equity Markets
Author: Birgit Charlotte Müller
Publisher: Springer Gabler
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2021-08-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783658354787

In this Open-Access-book three essays on empirical asset pricing in international equity markets are presented. Despite being of fundamental economic and scientific importance, international financial markets have remained considerably underresearched until today. In the first essay, the role of firm-specific characteristics is analyzed for the momentum effect to exist in international equity markets. The second essay investigates the validity, persistence, and robustness of the newly discovered capital share growth factor across international equity markets as proposed by Lettau et al. (2019) for the U.S. market. Lastly, the third and final essay studies stock market reactions of European vendor banks to distressed loan sale announcements.