This paper discusses whether, in which respects, and to what extent the corporate governancesystems of Germany, the United Kingdom and France have already converged in the course ofEuropean economic integration, or are likely to converge in the foreseeable future. Wepresent, and attempt to...

This paper presents some consequences of economic theory for the regulation of corporate accounting and disclosure under Geman accounting legislation (de lege lata) and in an international context. The following implications are discussed: (i) It is argued that the economic income conception...

In a series of recent papers, Mark Roe and Lucian Bebchuk have developed further the concept of path dependence, combined it with concepts of evolution and used it to challenge the wide-spread view that the corporate governance systems of the major advanced economies are likely to converge...

This paper deals with the impact of insider trading legislation on corporate governance.

Durch vermehrt aufgetretene Finanzskandale und Zusammenbrüche namhafter Unternehmen wurde in den letzten Jahren das Vertrauen der Anleger nachhaltig gestört. Um die Glaubwürdigkeit in die veröffentlichten Finanzinformationen und in die Sicherheit der unternehmerischen Überwachungsprozesse...

This paper studies the short- and long-run announcement effects of declaring compliance with the German Corporate Governance Code (the Code). We examine a unique, hand-collected data set of 317 German listed firms from 2002-2005. First, we present evidence from an analysis of firms compliance...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the role of auditors and the legal standards of auditing in the German system of corporate governance in the light of recent crises of large quoted companies. The arguments are developed from an economic-analysis-of-law perspective. Some of the conclusions...

Purpose: We examine motives for hiring a non-family Chief FinancialOfficer (CFO) in family firms. We explore the perceptions of family firm ownerstowards external managers by analyzing how their goals relate to the employmentof a non-family CFO.Design/methodology/approach: Our study is based on...

Die Neue Institutionenökonomik und insbesondere die Agency-Theorie habensich zum heute dominierenden Paradigma der Corporate Governance-Diskussionentwickelt. Aufgrund der restriktiven Modellannahmen, die diesem Ansatzzugrunde liegen, werden jedoch einige Effekte, die in der Realität von...

This paper uses firm-level data on 162 large Hungarian enterprises to analyse the relationship betweenownership structure and corporate performance in 1998 and 1999. Cross-sectional regressions are runfor each of these years using the return on assets (ROA) as the measure of performance. Both...