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...

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...

This article studies optimal fines when an offender's wealth is private information that can be obtained by the enforcement authority only after a costly audit. I derive the optimal fine for the underlying offense, the optimal fine for misrepresenting one's wealth level, and the optimal audit...

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...

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

Health care providers may vertically integrate not only to facilitate coordination of care, but also for strategic reasons that may not be in patients' best interests. Optimal Medicare reimbursement policy depends upon the extent to which each of these explanations is correct. To investigate, we...

We analyze a model where investors use a credit rating to decide whether to finance a firm. The rating quality depends on unobservable effort exerted by a credit rating agency (CRA). We study optimal compensation schemes for the CRA when a planner, the firm, or investors order the rating. Rating...

Educational interventions are often narrowly targeted and temporary, and evaluations often focus on the short-run impacts of the intervention. Insofar as the positive effects of educational interventions fadeout over time, however, such assessments may be misleading. In this paper, we develop a...

School choice systems aspire to delink residential location and school assignments by allowing children to apply to schools outside of their neighborhood. However, the introduction of choice programs affect incentives to live in certain neighborhoods, which may undermine the goals of choice...

Even though teams have become the dominant mode of knowledge production, little is known regarding how they divide work among their members. Conceptualizing knowledge production as a process involving a number of functional activities, we first develop a conceptual framework to study the...