This paper deals with the impact of voluntary strategy disclosure in management reports on the cost of equity capital. Such an impact is not obvious, as investors might consider strategy information as 'cheap talk' and therefore ignore it. We analyze a sample of 100 German listed firms from 2002...

Corporate scandals led to an increased interest in improving managers' compliance. To this end, companies implement compliance programs including codes of conduct, compliance training, and whistle-blowing as core elements. Previous research has focused on the impact of the mere existence of one...

In diesem Arbeitspapier wird die Wertreelvanz von Rechnungslegungsdaten nach HGB und US-GAAP auf der Basis des Feltham-Ohlson-Modells überprüft.In this research paper, the value relevance of accounting data (German GAAP, US-GAAP) is compared based on the model of Feltham-Ohlson (1995)...

In diesem Arbeitspapier wird das an der Professur vertretene Controllingverständnis (Lehre von der Messung güterwirtschaftlicher Sachverhalte für betriebliche Entscheidungen) erläutert und begründet.

The paper compares the effects of real versus phantom stock option plans as different types of executive compensation of shareholder wealth. So far, literature presupposes that from tax effects both types of plans are equivalent from shareholders' point of view. This question is discussed based...

The Paper analyzes wheather mandatory auditor rotation is means to reduce an expectation gap caused by moral hazard problems. The analysis is divided into two parts with reference to the two different types of auditor rotation systems: (1) rotation of audit firms, and (2) rotation of audit...