1 Introduction
1��1 Literature review
1��2 Characteristics of the institutional environment for equity issues
1��3 Objectives of the dissertation
1��4 Main results and contributions

2 How can managers anticipate future stock overvaluation?
2��1 Introduction
2��2 Literature review
2��3 Sample selection and data
2��4 Stock price reactions to SEO announcements
2��5 Are SEO firms overvalued at the announcement?
2��6 Do managers successfully time the SEO market?
2��7 Summary

3 Market timing of seasoned equity offerings with long regulative process
3��1 Introduction
3��2 Literature review and hypotheses
3��3 Sample selection and data
3��4 Baseline results
3��5 Additional analyses
3��6 Further analyses
3��7 Summary

4 Market timing in private placements of seasoned equity
4��1 Introduction
4��2 The market timing hypothesis of private placements
4��3 Data and variables
4��4 Empirical results
4��5 Robustness check
4��6 Summary

5 Conclusion

Bibliography
Acknowledgements