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...

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...

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

During the first two-thirds of the 20th century the themes of sectorial structure and compared performance prevail in Italian economic historiography. In contrast, in the last part of the century attention is focused on the behavior of single economic actors and their micro-economic strategies....

The basis of all corporate governance considerations is the effect of ownership structure on company performance. This book presents empirical studies which model the endogeneity by applying the simultaneous equations methodology on the relation of ownership and financial performance as well as...