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Shareholder voting and merger returns

Henning, Laura

In: Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2015, vol. 29, no. 4, p. 337-363

Calls of convertible debt securities: no bad news at all

Nigbur, Tobias

In: Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2015, vol. 29, no. 1, p. 61-79

The war puzzle: contradictory effects of international conflicts on stock markets

Brune, Amelie ; Hens, Thorsten ; Rieger, Marc ; Wang, Mei

In: International Review of Economics, 2015, vol. 62, no. 1, p. 1-21

Erratum to Comment on: Nonparametric Tail Risk, Stock Returns, and the Macroeconomy

Camponovo, Lorenzo ; Scaillet, Olivier ; Trojani, Fabio

In: Journal of Financial Econometrics, 2017, vol. 15, no. 3, p. 505-505

Comment on: Nonparametric Tail Risk, Stock Returns, and the Macroeconomy

Camponovo, Lorenzo ; Scaillet, Olivier ; Trojani, Fabio

In: Journal of Financial Econometrics, 2017, vol. 15, no. 3, p. 377-387

Essays in institutional investors, market efficiency and the real economy

Tubaldi, Roberto ; Frésard, Laurent (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ECO004.

My dissertation consists of three chapters, each of which focuses on how institutional investors trade, impact price efficiency in secondary financial markets and influence the allocation of resources in the real economy. Using a novel approach based on hurricanes, the first chapter, Mutual Funds’ Fire Sales and the Real Economy: Evidence from Hurricanes, contributes to the recent debate on...

Explorative market research on a family farm business in Switzerland : how can a family farm business effectively implement a marketing strategy in order to be profitable and grow in the meat industry in Switzerland ?

Weber, Jenny ; Connerton, Timothy (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDIBM 77.

On average, three farms disappear every day in Switzerland. Small-scaled farms are the most affected by this downturn (Conrad Widmer, 2019). However, larger farms (over 50 ha) have increased. The consequence of this trend is that larger farms represent now a bigger share in Switzerland farming market, at the expense of smaller farms. How can small farms survive in this fast changing and...

Do socially responsible investments outperform conventional ones ?

Schaub, Laurent-Xavier ; Ruiz, Frédéric (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDIBM 87.

The literature has seen a growing number of studies addressing the topic of sustainable finance, while firms also seem to be keener on undertaking and advertising societal actions. The role firms play in society has been evolving, especially due to the rising demand for corporate social responsibilities. The question that recurrently arises is whether being socially responsible will allow...

The influence of Green Nudges in a marketing strategy to reduce consumption of natural resources for packaging while maintaining or increasing profits

Mueller, Nadja Jennifer ; Shepherd, Mark (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDIBM 95.

Environmental pollution became a serious problem and is impacting our planet today. According to the World Economic Forum, plastic “is one of the world’s leading drivers of climate change”. Literature states that cardboard boxes, such as Tetra Pak, require less natural resources than plastic bottles. Making a change and decreasing environmental pollution requires the active involvement...

Chasing dividends during the COVID-19 pandemic

Eugster, Nicolas ; Ducret, Romain ; Isakov, Dušan ; Weisskopf, Jean-Philippe

(Working Papers SES ; 520)

This paper investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the trading behavior of investors around ex-dividend dates in Europe. The sudden decrease in the number of companies paying dividends reduced the opportunities to capture dividends. The firms that have maintained dividend payments during the pandemic thus attracted more interest than before. This led to a doubling in the magnitude...