Spektakuläre Unternehmenszusammenbrüche haben das Vertrauen in die Corporate Governance und speziell in die Leistungen von Wirtschaftsprüfern erschüttert. Man geht davon aus, dass Wirtschaftsprüfer einem Interessenkonflikt ausgesetzt sind: Auf der einen Seite erhalten sie ihre Aufträge...

In official international trade statistics, annual commerce between every pair of countries is reported twice: once by the importing country and once by the exporter. These double reports provide an opportunity for audit. In principle, the two reported trade values should differ systematically...

Insiders can artificially deflect the market prices of financial instruments from their full-information or inside value' by issuing deceptive accounting reports. Incentive support for disinformational activity comes through forms of compensation that allow corporate insiders to profit...

und Problemstellung -- Aktuelle Qualitätssicherungsmassnahmen für Abschlussprüfer -- Externe Qualitätskontrolle im internationalen Vergleich -- Informationsökonomische Analyse der externen Qualitätskontrolle -- Befragung zur externen Qualitätskontrolle im schweizerischen Berufsstand --...

We introduce costly verification into a general delegation framework. A principal faces an agent who is better informed about the efficient action but biased towards higher actions. An audit verifies the agent's information, but is costly. The principal chooses a permissible action set as a...

Mit der zu verzeichnenden Internationalisierung der Kapitalmarktkommunikation geht eine Ausrichtung der Wirtschaftsprüfung an internationalen Prüfungsnormen einher. Jochen C. Theis geht der Frage nach, wie der individuelle Kapitalmarktteilnehmer Informationen verarbeitet, die ihm im Rahmen der...

Unlike demand studies in other industries, models of provider demand in health care often must omit a price or any other factor that equilibrates the market. Estimates of the consumer response to quality may consequently be attenuated, if the limited capacity of individual providers prevents...

Prompted by widespread concerns about public school quality, a growing empirical literature has measured the effects of greater choice on school performance. This paper contributes to that literature in three ways. First, it makes the observation that the overall effect of greater choice, which...

Bureaucratic quality in terms of the level of corruption varies widely across countries, and is in general slow to evolve relative to the speed with which many economic polices can be implemented such as the imposition of capital controls. In this paper, we study the possibility that quality of...

In many theoretical public finance models, school quality plays a central role as a determinant of household location choices and in turn, of neighborhood stratification. In contrast, the recent empirical literature has almost universally concluded that the direct effect of school quality on...