Competence Center Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance

Topics
  • Promoting IPOs in Europe: An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Policy Reforms in IPO Activity and Post-IPO Operating Performance
  • An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Governance in US NGOs in Light of Form 990 Reform
  • The effect of public corruption on the financial policies of U. S. firms
  • Multinational Enterprises and Corporate Sustainability: The Impact of International Subsidiaries’ Country Sustainability
  • The impact of environmental lawsuits on sued companies - Empirical evidence of short and long-term financial effects
  • Green bonds – Impact of environmental changes on the bond market
  • Shopping Hours Regulation in Germany and Retail Firms‘ Financial Figures
  • Does passive bond holding induce risk shifting at the firm level?

  • The Impact of Management, Family and Employee Ownership Concentration on Firm Performance

Competence Center Financial Intermediation - Banking

Topics
  • The impact of bank regulation on lending dynamics
  • Centralisation of banking supervision and bank stock price informativeness
  • The impact of ESG controversies on bank risk

Competence Center Empirical Finance

Topics
  • Dissecting characteristics via machine learning in Europe
  • Capital Markets Anomalies and Multi-Factor Models for Emerging Stock Markets
  • Portfolio Optimization under Asset Pricing Anomalies
  • Smart Beta: Funds Performance Evaluation
  • Private Equity Replication with Leveraged Small-Cap Value Stocks
  • Cross-sectional earnings forecasting methods: A comparison for the European market
  • Return Decomposition for Selected European Markets using an Implied Cost of Capital
  • Index Membership and Bond Liquidity