Essays about: "Stock Characteristics"

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  1. 21. SPAC Post-Merger Performance in the New Regime - An Agency Perspective

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Niclas Leksell; Marcus Silkisberg; [2022-06-30]
    Keywords : SPACs; Special Purpose Acquisition Company; IPO; Merger; Acquisition; Business Combination; Post-merger performance; Agency conflicts; Event study;

    Abstract : SPACs are shell companies without operations created to raise capital in an IPO and subsequently identify a non-listed operating company to merge with. As of the last three years (2019-2021), the SPAC has witnessed a significant surge in popularity on the back of several tailwinds, including regulatory legitimization efforts and the participation of blue-chip sponsors and investors. READ MORE

  3. 22. Stock or Cash? Explaining the Payment Method Choice of M&As and the Effect on Performance on the European Developed Markets

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : gustav kollberg; john skantze; [2022-06-29]
    Keywords : Payment Method; Stock Bid; Cash Bid; Determinants of the Payment Method; Cumulative Abnormal Return; Opportunistic Behaviour; Rational Payment Design; M A; Information Asymmetry; Adverse Selection;

    Abstract : We investigate what factors determine the choice of the payment method when choosing between payment of stocks or cash during an acquisition or merger. Furthermore, we examine how that choice of payment method affects the bidder’s performance in the short term by examining the changes in the cumulative abnormal return. READ MORE

  4. 23. Disposition Effect and Time: Are investors increasingly reluctant to realize losses the longer they hold on to a stock?

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Mathias Lien Oskarsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Behavioral finance; Disposition effect; Holding period; Gender; Age;

    Abstract : The disposition effect is defined as the notion that investors hold on to losses for too long. In this paper I study how the disposition effect is influenced by the longer the investor holds on to a stock. READ MORE

  5. 24. The War on Terror - Terror on the Stock Market?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Jakob Erlandsson; Jesper Hedlund; [2022]
    Keywords : Event study; CAAR; sign test; War on Terror; stock market; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper aims to investigate the effect of the major events of the U.S. War on Terror on the stock market. This is done by replicating an event study by Hudson and Urquhart (2015), which analyzes the effects of World War II events on the stock market returns. READ MORE

  6. 25. Investing in Bitcoin and Ethereum during stock market turmoil - a Swedish Perspective. : A study on the hedging, safe-haven, and diversification characteristics of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Gold against the OMX30 during the COVID-19 crisis and Russian invasion of Ukraine.

    University essay from Jönköping University/IHH, Företagsekonomi

    Author : Erik Larsson; Lukas Johansson; [2022]
    Keywords : DCC-GARCH; Bitcoin; Ethereum; Gold; Safe-Haven; Hedging; Diversification; COVID-19; Russia; Ukraine;

    Abstract : The world has faced tumultuous times in recent years with the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the Russian invasion of Ukraine causing the stock market to be unusually volatile. During such times investors tend to flee to alternative investment opportunities that are uncorrelated or negatively correlated with the stock market, called safe-haven assets. READ MORE