The paper studies the link between the integration of European financial markets and corporate governance in Europe. The focus of the paper is on how integration affects the interplay of ownership structures, capital structures, and monitoring, all of which can be used to govern agency problems...

Dominant investors can influence the publicly available information about firms by affecting the cost of information collection. Under strategic competition, transparency results in higher variability of profits and output. Thus lenders prefer less transparency, since this protects firms when in...

Der Aufsatz leistet einen Beitrag zur Diskussion um zusätzliche Beschränkungen der Beteiligung und Mitwirkung von Investoren an Aktiengesellschaften. Teil 1 stellt die Diskussion um die Beteiligung ausländischer Staatsfonds und die Einflussnahme von Hedge Fonds an deutschen Unternehmen in den...

We analyze real interest rate convergence among six industrialized countries in between 1975M1-2011M3 within a multi-country framework by means of a dynamic latent factor model. The real interest rates are decomposed into permanent and transitory factors, and country-specific components....