Selected Essays in Stock Market Liquidity [Elektronische Ressource] : Innovative XLM Measure at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange; Cloudy Skies, Time of the Day and the Role of Designated Sponsors for Stock Market Liquidity / Tatjana Verrier. Dirk Schiereck. Andreas Hackethal

Inaugural dissertationto obtain the academic degreeDoctor rerum politicarum (Dr.rer.pol.)Selected Essays in Stock Market Liquidity.Innovative XLM Measure at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange: Cloudy Skies, Time of the Day and the Role of Designated Sponsors for Stock Market LiquidityUniversity: European Business School (EBS)Name: Tatjana VerrierSupervisors: Prof. Dr. Dirk SchiereckProf. Dr. Andreas HackethalSubmission: August 2010PrefaceWriting a doctoral thesis is never easy or straightforward. I would not havebeen able to complete this work without the help of many people whom Iwould like to acknowledge here.First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my doctoralsupervisor Dirk Schiereck for his guidance and encouragement. I owe himmuch for the outstanding support and opportunities he made possible duringmy time as an external doctoral student at the European Business School(EBS). Second, I would like to thank Andreas Hackethal for readily agreein g toprovide the second opinion on my thesis and providing constructive f eedbackduring my annual proposal defences.Third, I am thankful to Christiane Goodfellow for her help and contrib ution tothe essays and the publication of several research papers. I am a lso verygrateful to Deutsche Börse AG for providing the dataset for all of my essays.Last, but definitely not least, I would like to thank my family and es pecially myhusband David.