The question of whether the CEO should also serve as chairman of the board is one of themost hotly debated issues in the recent corporate governance discussion. While agencytheoreticarguments advocate a separation of decision and control functions, the empiricalevidence focusing on U.S....

This is the first empirical paper investigating a comprehensive sample of listed(i.e. publicly traded) private equity companies, covering 287 companies in thetime period 1986 to 2003. After imposing liquidity constraints, and aftercorrecting for non-surviving vehicles, we get a sample of 114...

This paper investigates the impact of individual bank fundamental variables onstock market returns using data from a panel of 235 European banks from 1991to 2005. The sample period marks a significant transition in the European bankingsector, characterized by higher competition, lower profit...

This paper provides a discussion about some recent issues related to the transfer ofcredit risk (CRT) from the perspective of global liquidity. The CRT market is enormouslygrowing and exhibits major structural shifts in terms of buyers and sellers ofprotection. I try to address these issues from...

We investigate the performance of a sample of German mutual equity funds overthe period from 1994 to 2003. Our general finding is that mutual funds, on average,hardly produce excess returns relative to their benchmark that are large enough tocover their expenses. This conclusion is drawn from a...