Browsing by Subject "Kapitalmarkt"

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    Corporate financing choices : new ideas and revisited common themes
    (2011) Michelsen, Marc; Hachmeister, Dirk
    Observed industry-specific leverage ratios in and across financial systems imply the relevance of capital market imperfections. This severely questions the validity of the irrelevance of capital structure decisions for firm value. Moreover, survey studies of CFOs suggest that managers have some target debt ratio or range, which also refutes the irrelevance of capital structure. The number of studies on capital structure is enormous, but to date no universal theory has been formulated for capital structure. It has even been argued that there might not be any reason to expect a universal theory of capital structure. Instead, different theories apply to firms under different circumstances. For that reason, this dissertation on empirical capital structure research aims to discuss and investigate two specific ?firm circumstances? that influence corporate financing choices and seem promising for future research. First, I investigate a determinant of capital structure that has so far received little attention in literature ? credit ratings by the external agencies Standard & Poor?s and Moody?s. Rating agencies play an eminent role in today?s capital markets. It is likely that firms under the scrutiny of such strong external supervisors may follow a different leverage policy to non-rated firms. However, rating agencies? renowned importance is so far not reflected in the capital structure research. Therefore, I thoroughly investigate the financing choices of externally rated firms for managers? rating considerations. Chapter 2 shows that managers follow a more conservative leverage policy if their firm?s credit rating is about to be upgraded or downgraded. While retained earnings are cross-sectional the dominant source of funding, the economics of security offerings has generated considerable empirical research interest over the past two decades. Survey evidence and stock price dynamics around seasoned equity offerings indicate that managers exploit temporary overvaluations of the firm?s stock and therefore time the equity offering. These efforts are possible because of the information asymmetry between managers and investors and the associated incentives for managers to exploit this informational advantage. Externally rated firms, on the other hand, reduce adverse selection problems with the information gathering process of the rating agencies. Therefore, it is questionable if the market timing hypothesis still holds for externally rated firms? seasoned equity offerings. The results of Chapter 3 imply that rating concerns are an important consideration for equity issuing firms. As a second ?firm circumstance? that may alter the composition of the balance sheet, I examine managers? weighting of public versus private equity in the decision to opt out of the public markets and go private. Such a public-to-private transaction (PTP) is an important step in the corporate life cycle, and modifies the capital structure of the firm significantly. However, consensus has not been reached in the literature on the underlying motives, and accordingly the relevant financial theories. Therefore, in Chapter 3 I investigate the characteristics of German firms that opted out of the public equity markets. Studying the public-to-private decision in Germany is of particular interest, because Germany can still be regarded as a prime example of an insider-controlled and relationship-based financial system. Therefore, the transferability of findings from Anglo-Saxon countries is difficult, as the structure of the financial and legal system is known to have a strong influence on corporate decisions. On the whole, I find no evidence of the free cash flow problem in the German corporate governance system. In respect of the respective PTP companies, the PTP phenomenon can be accounted for by a changing corporate life cycle status and a malfunctioning of the public capital markets.
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    Democratic prospects in Imperial Russia : the revolution of 1905 and the political stock market
    (2015) Opitz, Alexander
    This paper assesses the attitude of investors towards Democratic change by performing an event study using Russian government bonds. The Revolution of 1905 offers an ideal occasion as, alongside the related revolutionary events, it was accompanied by two opposing constitutional changes within a short period of time. This study contributes to the debate as to whether Imperial Russia could possibly have followed other Western European states, i.e. gradually adopting a democratic rule, or whether a revolution was inevitable – as the writing of Soviet history suggests. Furthermore, the Russo-Japanese War is taken into consideration. The results are basically in line with the literature on the impact of wars on capital markets. Prices of two types of bonds on both the Saint Petersburg and the Berlin stock exchange are employed. As it turns out, investors in the East and West were largely consistent in their reactions.
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    Investor beliefs and their impact on financial markets
    (2021) Hartmann, Carolin; Burghof, Hans-Peter
    The idea of this thesis is to use new data sources to approximate investor beliefs. It investigates whether the approximation improves the measurement of return and volatility in existing model frameworks. The findings are that differences in implied volatility, Google Search volume and Twitter Volume can be proxy variables for investor beliefs. They have an impact on financial market indicators and on the prediction of future market movements. Comparison of the trading behaviour of individual and institutional investors to predict market movements The first approach is to create a new sentiment index which compares the difference between retail investor behaviour at the Stuttgart Stock Exchange (SSE) and professional investors at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE). The measure is a comparison between the implied volatility measures for the DAX at the FSE (VDAX and VDAX-NEW) and a newly created implied volatility index (VSSE) for the SSE. The sentiment index is significant in predicting the daily returns on a size-based long-short portfolio over a four-year period. The analysis shows the persistent inconsistence between prices of structured products for retail investors on the SSE and option prices of professional investors on the FSE. The results provide empirical evidence that there are significant persistent behavioural differences between the two investor types which is reflected in persistent mispricing. Measurability of investor beliefs and their impact on financial markets The second approach is to measure individual investor beliefs with Google search volume (GSV) and Twitter volume (TV) to analyse their impact on financial markets. The basis is a daily panel of 29 Dow Jones Industrial average index (DJIA) stocks over a time period of 3.5 years in a panel data set-up. The impact on trading activity measured by turnover, is positive for GSV and TV on the same day and the next day which indicates their predictive power. The impact on realized volatility (RV), indicating the share of noise traders on the market, is only positive and significant for TV. It is significant on the same day and the next day. The impact of GSV is not significant. The results support the idea that GSV and TV capture the beliefs of individual investors. Although they suggest that the impact of TV on financial markets is more important than the impact of GSV. Predictive power of Google and Twitter The third approach is to use GSV and TV as a proxy for investor attention and investor sentiment, to assess their predictive power on the RV of the DJIA. The basis is a time-series set-up with a vector autoregression (VAR) model over a period of 2.5 years. The findings show that GSV and TV granger cause RV, controlling for macroeconomic and financial factors. Again, the effect of TV on RV is more important than the effect of GSV. In-sample, the linear prediction model with GSV and TV outperforms a standard AR (1) process. Out-of-sample the AR (1) process outperforms the standard model with GSV and TV. Clustering for high and low volatility groups, the analysis shows that the effect of GSV and TV on RV changes. Especially in times of high and low RV, GSV and TV seem to contain new information, as they improve the model fit compared to a standard AR (1) process. However, the results are not persistent in- and out-of-sample. This underlines that the results of GSV and TV are not generally persistent but depend on the selected criteria. Overall, the results of this thesis show that investor beliefs have an impact on financial markets. The measures, such as a sentiment index based on implied volatility, GSV and TV are proxy variables for investor beliefs. Future research should further improve the comprehension of investor beliefs to improve causality and economic significance in the long term.
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    Marktrisikoprämien am deutschen Kapitalmarkt : Ermittlung, Simulation und Vergleich historischer und angebotsseitiger Marktrisikoprämien
    (2014) Hachmeister, Dirk; Ruthardt, Frederik; Autenrieth, Matthias
    Die Diskussion über die „richtige“ methodische Ableitung und Höhe der Marktrisikoprämie wurde durch die Finanzmarkt- und Staatsschuldenkrise neu entfacht. Während in Deutschland der Ansatz impliziter Kapitalkosten als Alternative zu historischen Marktrisikoprämien disku-tiert wird, wird in den USA zunehmend auf das Konzept der angebotsseitigen Marktrisiko-prämie verwiesen. Dieser Beitrag ermittelt erstmals angebotsseitige Marktrisikoprämien für den deutschen Kapitalmarkt. Darüber hinaus werden historische Marktrisikoprämien für den deutschen Kapitalmarkt in Abhängigkeit vom Beobachtungszeitraum simuliert. Darauf auf-bauend kann eine Einschätzung des Konzeptes der angebotsseitigen Marktrisikoprämie für den deutschen Kapitalmarkt erfolgen. Darüber hinaus ergeben sich neue Erkenntnisse zur Stabilität historischer Marktrisikoprämien am deutschen Kapitalmarkt.