Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 368
Cover Image
Aufsichtsräte deutscher Aktiengesellschaften: Zusammensetzung, Interventionsaktivitäten, Performance
Vetter, Karin - 2011
Den Aufsichtsräten innerhalb des deutschen Corporate Governance Systems ist in den letzten Jahren erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit zugekommen. Es wurden Empfehlungen und gesetzliche Vorschriften formuliert, die die Zusammensetzung des Aufsichtsratsgremiums sowie dessen Tätigkeiten betreffen. Diesem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475315
Cover Image
Disclosure of executive remuneration in large banks
Schott, Max - 2008
explains lower risk premiums demanded by investors and/or better stock performance. The evidence suggests that better …-earnings ratios, lower risk premiums - and thus higher price-earnings ratios - can be supported by better disclosure if a special … controlled for the risk prices of volatility, size, book-to-market ratio and momentum. The evidence suggests that an investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451182
Cover Image
Zur Rolle der Printmedien bei der Steuerung und ?berwachung von Unternehmen. Eine Analyse der Berichterstattung ?ber die Einhaltung der Grunds?tze des Deutschen Corporate Governanc...
Schmid, Christoph - 2006
Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Feststellung, dass sich die ?konomische Theorie trotz der mehr als 160j?hrigen Geschichte gewerbsm??iger medialer Berichterstattung ?ber das Geschehen rund um M?rkte und Unternehmen lange Zeit kaum mit den Massenmedien besch?ftigt hat. Dabei kann...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481006
Cover Image
Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in highflooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk relatedbehaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442826
Cover Image
Management betrieblicher Risiken bei produzierenden Unternehmen
König, Roland - 2008
the complete risk management process. An Example from a mechanical engineering company is used for the final validation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467405
Cover Image
Produktion unter Risiko : ein agentenbasiertes, sektorales Partialmodell zur Anwendung in der Nachhaltigkeitsforschung
Meißner, Frank - 2007
-Walrasian disequilibrium approach and describe optimizing agents. These agents use chance constraints which depict a Cash Flow at Risk approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449067
Cover Image
Determinants of financial instrument disclosure patterns of Australian listed resource firms pre- and post-IFRS adoption
Taylor, Grantley J. - 2008
This thesis investigates the pattern of Financial Instrument Disclosures (FIDs) within the annual reports of Australian listed extractive resource companies (mining and petroleum) over a four year longitudinal period encompassing the 2003 to 2006 financial years. This is an important period to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435006
Cover Image
Do board contacts matter? : an analysis of the relationship between boards of directors’ ties and the performance of Australia’s largest companies.
Smith, Kevin John - 2009
Boards of directors are thought to provide access to a wealth of knowledge and resources for the companies they serve, and are considered important to corporate governance. Under the Resource Based View (RBV) of the firm (Wernerfelt, 1984) boards are viewed as a strategic resource available to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437975
Cover Image
Corporate governance mechanisms and earnings management in transitional countries – evidence from Chinese listed firms
Lin, Teng - 2011
The objective of this thesis is to investigate whether the corporate governance practices adopted by Chinese listed firms are associated with the quality of earnings information. Based on a review of agency and institutional theory, this study develops hypotheses that predict the monitoring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438004
Cover Image
The role of the audit committee and institutional investors in constraining earnings management : evidence from Chinese firms listed in Hong Kong
Lin, Philip Teng; Hutchinson, Marion R.; Percy, Majella - 2009
Using data from 2004 to 2008, we find that an audit committee is an important monitoring mechanism as audit committee independence, expertise and size are associated with reduced levels of abnormal accruals, our measure of earnings management. This study also attempts to discern when the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438215