Selected Essays On Market Microstructure

Selected Essays on Market Microstructure

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: summa cum laude, European Business School - International University Schloß Reichartshausen Oestrich-Winkel, language: English, abstract: The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the existing empirical literature by investigating the strategic behavior of informed and uninformed traders under the light of recent developments. We observe their actual current behavior at financial markets and try to assess whether existing theoretical arguments and assumptions are still valid in the world today, or the newly available rich data samples provide new answers to old questions that researchers have not been able to answer before.

Selected Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing

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.

Essays on Market Microstructure with Uncertain Information Precision, Optimal Information Sales, and Overconfidence