Selected Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing: Information Incorporation at the Single-Firm, Industry and Cross-Industry Level (ebs-Forschung, ... BUSINESS SCHOOL Schloß Reichartshausen)

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.