This dissertation contains three essays on financial reporting, tax, and politics. The first essay explores whether the tax authority is able to generate spillover effects for auditors. The IRS can generate spillover effects for auditors, as a strong IRS increases manager’s incentives to...

CEO Entschädigungen sind immer noch ein bedeutendes Thema. Nachdem die Unternehmensskandale und die starken öffentlichen Widerstände gegen die Überzahlungen, Wissenschaftlern, politischen Entscheidungsträgern, Politikern und den Interessengruppen ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf die Angemessenheit...

When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a "good" allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity (congruity,...

This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...