Die Diskussion über die Qualität guter Corporate Governance und deren Auswirkung auf den Unternehmenswert beschäftigt Wissenschaft und Praxis seit mehreren Jahren. Allerdings existiert noch keine umfassende empirische Studie zum Einfluss der Corporate Governance auf den Unternehmenswert...

We use a dynamic adjustment model and panel methodology to investigate the determinants of a time- varying optimal capital structure. Because firms may temporarily deviate from their optimal capital structure in the presence of adjustment costs, we also endogenize the adjustment process. In...

This paper analyzes the determinants of the German corporate governance rating recently developed by Drobetz, Schillhofer, and Zimmermann (2004). We find a non- linear relationship between ownership concentration and the quality of firmlevel corporate governance as measured by the rating. Firms...

Im Rahmen einer Fragebogenuntersuchung werden die Determinanten der Kapitalstrukturpolitik bzw. der Finanzierungsentscheidungen bei deutschen, österreichische n und schweizerischen börsennotierten Unternehmen untersucht. Die Ergebnisse decken sich weitgehend mit der Befragungsstudie von Graham...

The past decades witnessed a broad trend towards flatter organizations with lesshierarchical layers. A reduction of the number of management levels in a corporationcan have both positive and negative effects on firm performance with the neteffect being theoretically unclear ex ante. The present...

This paper introduces staggered right-to-manage wage bargaining into a NewKeynesian business cycle model. Our key result is that the model is able to generatepersistent responses in output, inflation, and total labor input to both neutraltechnology and monetary policy shocks. Furthermore, we...

This paper addresses the large degree of frictional wage dispersion in US data.The standard job matching model without on-the-job search cannot replicate thispattern. With on-the-job search, however, unemployed job searchers are more willingto accept low wage offers since they can continue to...

Owing to changes in the business environment, there has been a tremendous adoption of innovativeworkplace organisation (WO) and human resource (HR) practices during the last fewdecades. Assuming a holistic perspective on human resource management (HRM), the presentstudy establishes the...