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

Centralisation of banking supervision and bank stock price informativeness The impact of climate policy uncertainty on bank performance The Impact of Borrower-Based Macroprudential Tools on Bank Risk The interaction between external and internal bank governance and bank risk The Performance of the Securitized Mortgage Market and Effectiveness of Macroprudential Mortgage Measures Forecasting Mortgage Loan Defaults Environmental Degradation and Firm Risk: The Role of Biodiversity Loss An Empirical Investigation into Transitional Climate Risk and the Dynamics of Loan Renegotiation: Data-driven evidence from the Syndicated Loan Market Textual Analysis of Risk Retention Practices in ABS Forecasting Auto Loan Defaults

Competence Center Empirical Finance

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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 Cost of capital methodology in the energy industry Financing premium of flexible power generation assets Crypto Asset Pricing: An Empirical Analysis of Factor Models, Market Efficiency, and Regulatory Impact