Peter N. Posch’s research while affiliated with TU Dortmund University and other places

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Publications (83)


How Does Corporate Culture Affect IPO Price Formation?
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March 2024

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Journal of Banking & Finance

Douglas Cumming

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Daniel Neukirchen

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Peter N. Posch



Do Institutional Investors Care About Operational Leanness?

November 2023

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British Journal of Management

We investigate the relationship between operational leanness and institutional ownership. Based on a sample of 12,291 firm‐year observations of US manufacturing firms from 1998 to 2020, we find leaner firms to attract significantly more institutional investors – both in terms of the fraction of shares held and the number of institutional investors holding shares of the firm. This finding holds in several tests addressing endogeneity concerns. Contrary to studies investigating the relationship between operational leanness and operating performance or credit ratings, our results do not provide consistent evidence that this relationship is also of a concave shape. However, we provide evidence that the relationship is stronger (i) for firms with weak corporate governance and high firm‐specific monitoring costs and (ii) for active institutions, suggesting that not only firm performance considerations but also perceived lower agency costs are important mechanisms explaining why institutional investors prefer lean manufacturing firms. Taken together, these findings contribute to our understanding of institutional investors’ preferences in general and across institution types.





This table reports the descriptive statistics of the financial and sustainable returns. The data come from Compustat and Refinitiv and include annual data for 411 firms from 2015 to 2019. In the process of computing sustainable returns, our sample of financial and sustainable returns shortens by one year and reaches from 2016 to 2019, consisting of 411 return series. We report the minimum, mean, and maximum for each central moment.
This table reports the sustainability preference parameters γ * for the minimum-variance portfolio and maximum Sharpe ratio portfolio under differing parameters for absolute risk aversion A, using the exponential utility function as an approximation of investor utility.
How Do Investors Value Sustainability? A Utility-Based Preference Optimization
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November 2022

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We investigate how an investor’s preference for sustainable assets in the portfolio varies for differing levels of risk aversion. Using a sample of 411 publicly listed firms in the S&P 500, we calculate financial and sustainability returns, on which the investor’s utility depends. We approximate the investor’s preference by the exponential and s-shaped utility function and optimize with regard to the sustainability preference. We find that with increasing levels of risk aversion, both minimum-variance and maximum Sharpe ratio type investors seek to incorporate sustainable assets in the portfolio.

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Does carbon price volatility affect European stock market sectors? A connectedness network analysis

September 2022

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Finance Research Letters

We investigate how the volatility of carbon emission allowance (EUA) prices affects European stock market sectors. We employ a connectedness network analysis on prices of EUA futures and FTSE stock market sector indices and find that the EUA is mostly a net receiver of volatility connectedness and significantly receives volatility across most sectors during the recent European energy crisis.


The Value of (Private) Investor Relations during the COVID-19 Crisis

February 2022

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Journal of Banking & Finance

We investigate the value of investor relations (IR) and find firms with strong IR to experience between five and eight percentage points higher stock returns than those with weak IR during the COVID-19 crisis. Firms with better-quality IR are also associated with higher investor loyalty and appear to have attracted significantly more institutional investors over the crisis period. This suggests that a firm’s IR contributes to value generation by enhancing credibility with shareholders and by diversifying its shareholder base. After decomposing IR into public and private transmission channels, we find the private IR function to be the main driver of our results.


Citations (34)


... Jansson et al. (2014) predicted that risk attitude would be positively related to SRI preferences on the basis of less efficient diversification, but their results showed the opposite, suggesting that sustainable investments were perceived as less risky. Aslan and Posch (2022) noted that with increasing levels of risk aversion, investors seek to incorporate sustainable investments into their portfolios, whereas Lagerkvist et al. (2020) showed that sustainability-focused individuals tend to avoid larger levels of risk exposure compared with financially-focused individuals. Conversely, other authors found the opposite. ...

Reference:

Socially responsible investments inside out: a new conceptual framework for investigating retail investor preferences
How Do Investors Value Sustainability? A Utility-Based Preference Optimization

... The results of the Toda-Yamamoto co-integration test, along with the causality Granger test, demonstrate a causality direction from stock indices to the carbon market. Aslan and Posch (2022) discover the volatility connectedness between FTSE300 and EUA prices, using the Diebold-Yilmaz method for the third and last phase of the EU-ETS. According to the outcomes, the carbon market is a net receiver of volatilities from the stock market, and this connection enhances during the latest energy crisis in the EU. ...

Does carbon price volatility affect European stock market sectors? A connectedness network analysis
  • Citing Article
  • September 2022

Finance Research Letters

... We further control for various firm characteristics that are likely to be related to ESG violations (Wahid 2019;Zaman et al. 2021;Heese et al. 2022;Neukirchen et al. 2022). We control for firm size (SIZE); financial performance (return on assets, ROA and losses, LOSS); ...

Board Age Diversity and Corporate Misconduct
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  • January 2022

SSRN Electronic Journal

... We investigate whether the asymmetric variation in our oil volatility index impacts our daily market returns. There is great concern amongst shareholders about negative volatility amid a crisis; as a result, investors may respond more strongly to bad news than to good news (Garel & Petit-Romec, 2021;Neukirchen, Engelhardt, Krause, & Posch, 2022). Consequently, we have utilized a quantile regression approach in the current study to understand this pattern better. ...

The Value of (Private) Investor Relations during the COVID-19 Crisis
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  • February 2022

Journal of Banking & Finance

... This type of investor tends to be more loyal by holding their assets in times of crisis (Siddiq & Javed, 2014). A considerable number of studies have focused on the global financial crisis and revealed that companies with good ESG scores have high stock returns and lower volatility during the turmoil period (Gul & Altuntas, 2024;Horobet et al., 2024;Liu et al., 2023;Naseer et al., 2024;Zhou & Zhou, 2023;Chininga et al., 2024;Engelhardt et al., 2021). ...

ESG Ratings and Stock Performance during the COVID-19 Crisis

... This might be because of things like having more debt, having fewer financial resources, and being more vulnerable to market fluctuations. Neukirchen et al. (2022) looked into the connection between stock market responses to COVID-19 news announcements and business age. According to the findings, older businesses were more resilient than younger ones when it came to how their stock prices responded to news about the epidemic. ...

Firm efficiency and stock returns during the COVID-19 crisis
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  • March 2021

Finance Research Letters

... Along with the growth of esports a number of worries and issues appear, including player weariness, gaming addiction, and the requirement for uniform laws that have evolved as this business grows [19]. Experts and researchers have been working hard to address these issues, offering insightful information on how to promote player welfare, encourage responsible gaming, and create industry-wide ethical standards [20]. ...

Managerial behavior in fund tournaments—the impact of TrueSkill

Journal of Asset Management

... His empirical research demonstrates that this volatility was primarily driven by two key factors: the number of new daily infection cases globally and within the United States and the escalating fatality ratio. Engelhardt et al. (2021) posit that trust in the government plays a crucial role in mitigating market volatility. Their findings indicate that increased levels of societal and governmental trust are associated with lower levels of uncertainty within the country's stock market. ...

Trust and stock market volatility during the COVID-19 crisis
  • Citing Article
  • December 2020

Finance Research Letters

... As already mentioned, VaR calculation is a portfolio risk prediction method that, by its very nature, offers a trader or investor a prediction of the maximum possible loss for a particular securities portfolio at specific market characteristics and at a specific level of materiality that defines the probability of a given loss. (Dong et al., 2020;Mitic et al., 2020;Zhang et al., 2019;Bucher et al., 2020;Corbetta and Peri, 2018;Leippold and Vasiljevic, 2020) Based on the nature of trading, and on our proposed trading system, we proposed a procedure based on adjusting the formula for calculating normal linear VaR such that the result of such a calculation was not the amount of financial loss but the level of significance at which such a loss occurred. Del Brio et al., 2020;Chen et al., 2019) The logic of such a calculation lies in the fact that, based on the setting of the risk management of the trading system, we know the monetary expression for the maximum loss, which we accept in the event of unstoppable developments, and therefore the probability with which such a result will occur is unknown. ...

Using the Extremal Index for Value-at-Risk Backtesting*
  • Citing Article
  • June 2020

Journal of Financial Econometrics