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Universal banks and relationships with firms
Elsas, Ralf; Krahnen, Jan Pieter - 2003
Some of the most widely expressed myths about the German financial system are concerned with the close ties and intensive interaction between banks and firms, often described as Hausbank relationships. Links between banks and firms include direct shareholdings, board representation, and proxy...
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Does say on pay matter? : evidence from the German natural experiment
Troeger, Tobias H.; Walz, Uwe - 2016
This paper investigates the potential implications of say on pay on management remuneration in Germany. We try to shed … deploy a hand-collected data set for Germany's major firms (i.e. DAX 30), for the years 2006-2012. Rather than focusing …. We observe that the compensation packages of management board members of Germany's DAX30-firms are quite closely linked …
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New evidence on ownership structures in Germany
Köke, F. Jens - 1999
Ownership structures are an important element of the theory explaining corporate governance. This study presents detailed descriptive evidence on the ownership structures of German manufacturing firms. It addresses several shortcomings of the previous German empirical literature: First, we study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443468
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Product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance : an empirical analysis for Germany
Januszewski, Silke I.; Köke, F. Jens; Winter, Joachim - 1999
econometric analysis of firm performance in Germany. Based on a unique panel data set with detailed information on almost 400 … Germany's bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …
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Corporate monitoring by blockholders in Europe : empirical evidence of managerial disciplining in Belgium, France, Germany, and the UK
Dherment-Ferere, Isabelle; Köke, F. Jens; Renneboog, Luc - 2001
creditors play an active role in disciplining. Block purchases have a monitoring role in Belgium and Germany, but not in France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446114
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How weak is the weakest-link principle? : on the measurement of firm owners' control rights
Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 2004
The paper argues that the weakest link principle, which has been widely used as a measure of ultimate owners' control rights, has a number of serious problems. A theoretically more satisfactory method of measuring control rights, based on voting power indices, is proposed, and the different...
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The association between disclosures on control system over financial reporting and mechanisms of corporate governance : empirical evidence from Germany and Poland
Gad, Jacek - In: International journal of management and economics 56 (2020) 4, pp. 351-369
disclosures related to control system over financial reporting in Poland and Germany. The research group comprised of companies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012395278
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Corporate governance of banks : a German alternative to the "standard model"
Kotz, Hans-Helmut; Schmidt, Reinhard H. - 2017
The paper provides an overview and an economic analysis of the development of the corporate governance of German banks since the 1950s, highlighting peculiarities - as seen from the meanwhile prevailing standard model perspective - of the German case. These peculiarities refer to the specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716996
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On the change of the German financial system
Schmidt, Reinhard H. - 2019
The financial crisis of 2007-08 has stressed the importance of a sound financial system. Unlike other studies weighing the pros and cons of market versus bank-based systems, this paper investigates whether the main elements of the German financial system can be regarded as complementary and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037106
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Deutsche Bank and its strategy change : what it means for the German financial system
Schmidt, Reinhard H. - 2019
: those of some 40 years ago, when Deutsche Bank was essentially a Germany-focused commercial bank, or even those from the … Bank's strategy of two decades ago, which aimed at transforming Deutsche Bank from a Germany-centered commercial bank into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012038963