This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of foreign-owned banks for credit growth, financial stability and economic growth in the post-communist European countries. Using data covering 20 countries over the period from 1995 to 2015, the authors analyse the evolution of banking sectors...

Consumer (co-)ownership in renewable energy (RE) is essential to the overall success of Energy Transition. In June 2018, the European Union agreed on a corresponding enabling framework as part of a recast of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II). The transposition of these comprehensive rules...

Corporate Governance and Finance Law is designed to educate students, researchers, and practitioners on the legal aspects of corporate financial markets within the United States, the Eurozone, and China

Conventional wisdom recommends the superiority of private ownership of enterprises. The reality confronts it with a rich diversity in ownership and governance structures. This volume examines five types of unorthodox ownership and governance form emerging in the industrial sector across major...

Part I: Corporate Ownership Structure and Corporate Governance -- Part II: Issues in Executive Compensation -- Part III: Boards of Directors: Roles, duties, and Responsibilities -- Part IV: New Trends in Corporate Governance: Towards a More Effective and Sustainable Governance

The Effect of Shareholder Taxation on Ownership Concentration -- Empirical Evidence on the Effect of Shareholder Taxation -- The Effect of Shareholder Taxation on Changes in Ownership.- German Corporate Capital Gains Taxation -- German Tax Reform 2001.

Aktuelle Trends hinsichtlicn des Ausschüttungs-verhaltens deutscher Aktiengesellschaften -- Investorenklientele und ihre Ausschüttungspräferenzen -- Theorien zur Ausschüttungspolitik -- Interdependenzen zwischen Investitions-, Finanzierungs- und Ausschüttungspolitik -- Umfrage zur Bedeutung...

Einführung -- Neue Institutionenökonomik und Unternehmensberatungen -- Ökonomische Eigentumstheorien und Hypothesen -- Design der empirischen Untersuchung -- Datenanalyse und Ergebnisse -- Diskussion -- Schlussbetrachtung.

Einführung -- Corporate-Governance-Systeme -- Corporate Governance als Gegenstand theoretischer Erklärungsansätze -- Interne Corporate-Governance-Mechanismen als Lösungsansätze — eine Analyse theoretischer und empirischer Forschungsergebnisse -- Entwicklung einer Typologie der Corporate...

Markus P. Urban investigates the influence of large shareholders (the so-called blockholders) on agency costs and firm value, thereby accounting for blockholder characteristics and blockholder interrelationships. The work provides a profound theoretical and empirical analysis on the nature and...