This paper investigates whether firms employing IAS or US GAAP exhibit measurable differences in proxies for information asymmetry and market liquidity. Sample firms are drawn from the "New Market" at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. All firms listed in this market segment are required to provide...

A large body of literature has shown that small firms experience difficulties in accessing the credit market due to informational asymmetries. Banks can overcome these asymmetries through relationship lending, or at least mitigate their effects by asking for collateral. Small firms, especially...

Executive Stock Option Programs (SOPs) have become the dominant compensation instrument for top-management in recent years. The incentive effects of an SOP both with respect to corporate investment and financing decisions critically depend on the design of the SOP. A specific problem in...

We examine the relationship between CEO ownership and stock market performance. Firms in which the CEO voluntarily holds a considerable share of outstanding stocks outperform the market by more than 10% p.a. after controlling for traditional risk factors. The effect is most pronounced in firms...

Performance fees for portfolio managers are designed to align the managers' goals withthose of the investors and to motivate managers to aquire "superior" information and tomake better investment decisions. A part of the literature analyzes performance fees on thebasis of market valuation. In...

By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer newinsights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreignrisky assets, or “home bias”, from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribesthe...

Extreme adverse selection arises when private information has unboundedsupport, and market breakdown occurs when no trade is the only equilibriumoutcome. We study extreme adverse selection via the limit behavior of afinancial market as the support of private information converges to an...

1. Beiden Urteilen in Sachen Mangusta/Commerzbank ist im Ergebnis zuzustimmen. Der Senathat das Recht des genehmigten Kapitals mit Bezugsrechtsausschluss sachgerecht fortentwickelt.2. In der ersten Entscheidung hat der Senat zutreffend die Frage nach einer Vorabberichtspflichtdes Vorstands...

This paper has shown that some of the principal arguments against shareholder voice areunfounded. It has shown that shareholders do own corporations, and that the nature of their propertyinterest is structured to meet the needs of the relationships found in stock corporations. The paper...

[...]Ziel der Untersuchung ist es, ein Bild über Investor Relations von mittelständischenUnternehmen zu zeichnen, die Probleme in der gerade für junge mittelständischeUnternehmen ungewohnten Finanzkommunikation zu identifizierenund zu prüfen, ob zwischen der Qualität der Investor Relations...