Corporate governance is not universal. Due to external and internalfactors, corporate governance can differ from country to country. In this paper theGerman corporate governance system, the typical example of a two-tier boardsystem, is presented. The major institutions of the German system and...

Internationale Aktivitäten sind für die meisten deutschen Unternehmenselbstverständlich. Um zu prüfen, ob sich die Internationalität von Unternehmenauch in der Internationalität ihrer Corporate-Governance-Organe widerspiegelt,werden in der vorliegenden Studie die Vorstände und...

The paper examines the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR)from the perspective of constitutional economics, focusing on the distinction betweena political community’s constitutional choice of the rules of the ‘‘marketgame,’’ and the market players’ sub-constitutional...

This paper uses German evidence to address two questions about corporate governance. Theeffects of ownership on corporate governance have received much recent attention, but verylittle of this has been devoted to the appropriate way to measure firm ownership. The resultsof this paper show that...

Europa hat sich mit der Lissabon-Strategie aus dem Jahr 2000 ambitionierte wirtschaftliche und politische Ziele gesetzt. Im Rahmen einer 10-Jahres-Strategie will der Europäische Rat die EU zum dynamischsten und wettbewerbsfähigsten Wirtschaftsraum der Welt machen. Diese Ankündigung wurde mit...

This paper documents the conglomerate discount for all available German firms andthe DAX 30 firms in detail. It shows a moderate discount of about 0.06 based onGerman comparable firms and of about 0.20 for a combined sample of German andEuropean peer groups. I further examine the relationship...

Einleitung: In der zweiten Hälfte der neunziger Jahre ist die Verbesserung der CorporateGovernance börsennotierter Gesellschaften zu einem intensiv diskutiertenThema geworden. Im Unterschied zu früheren Debatten, wie sie vor etwazwanzig Jahren anlässlich der Arbeit von Jensen/Meckling (1976)...

Recent empirical work shows evidence of a positive relationship between firm-specific corporate governance and firm valuation. Instead of looking at a single control mechanism, we use a broad corporate governance index and additional variables related to ownership structure, board...

Recent empirical work shows that a better legal environment leads to lowerexpected rates of return in an international cross-section of countries. Thispaper investigates whether differences in firm-specific corporate governancealso help to explain expected returns in a cross-section of firms...

In the past few years, corporate governance has become a popular area of discussionin continental Europe. Having been a topic of academic research for a longtime in the Anglo-Saxon literature, corporate governance has only recently movedfrom a special interest into all sections of the corporate...