This study is motivated by one of the most prevalent properties of modern corporations: separation of ownership and control. Ownership concentration has been one of the corporate governance mechanisms to solve the agency problem between shareholders and management. Existing literature is mainly...

In Chapter 1, I document a negative (positive) relationship between changes in large (small) blockholders' ownership and abnormal returns. The evidence in this paper suggests that an increase in the relatively large blockholders' ownership raises the consumption of private benefits while an...

This study aimed to determine how the influence of Corporate Governance consisting of Institutional Ownership, Managerial Ownership, Independent Commissioner, Audit Committee Meetings as well as Dividend Policy on firm value and how Corporate Social Responsibility moderates this influence. This...

In der vorliegenden Dissertation wird der Rückkauf eigener Anteile vor dem Hintergrund der Informations- und Anreizkonflikte in den Beziehungen zwischen den Eigenkapitalgebern, den Fremdkapitalgebern sowie dem Management eines Unternehmens diskutiert. Um die Richtung der Anreiz- und...

Nach Unternehmensskandalen wie bei Enron, Worldcom oder Comroad steht das Thema Corporate Governance in vielen Ländern wieder ganz oben auf der Agenda. Als Reaktion auf die spektakulären Unternehmenskrisen wird weltweit in zahlreichen Ausschüssen über die optimale Ausgestaltung und Qualität...

The initial view of the advantages of ownership concentration in joint stock companies was determined by the concern about the opportunistic managerial behavior. The growing importance of knowledge and human capital in the operation of firms shifts the focus of concern: excessive ownership...

Corporate governance aims to reduce expropriation of investors by managers. This thesis identifies and empirically examines three corporate governance mechanisms: cross-listing in the United States, close bank-firm relationships in Germany and corporate ownership structure in an emerging market....

In many respects, Australian boards more closely approach normative best practice guidelines for corporate governance than boards in other Western countries. Do Australian firms then demonstrate a board demographic-organisational performance link that has not been found in other economies? We...

performance. On the one hand, concentration of ownership that, in turn, concentrates management control in the hands of a strategic investor, eliminates agency problems associated with dispersed ownership. On the other hand, it may lead to entrenchment of upper management which may be...

Executive pay research has traditionally focused on salary, severance payments and longtermincentives. A systematic rigorous empirical examination of short-term annualbonuses is lacking. To address this omission, this research empirically examines therelationship between short-term bonuses and...