Recent empirical research shows evidence of a positive relationship between the quality of firm-specific corporate governance and firm valuation. Instead of looking at one single corporate governance mechanism in isolation, we construct a broad corporate governance index and apply five...

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...

Die Diskussion über die Qualität guter Corporate Governance und deren Auswirkung auf den Unternehmenswert beschäftigt Wissenschaft und Praxis seit mehreren Jahren. Allerdings existiert noch keine umfassende empirische Studie zum Einfluss der Corporate Governance auf den Unternehmenswert...

This paper is concerned with the causes and consequences of industrial diversification in a cross-section of 159 Swiss firms and contributes to the existing literature in two important ways: First, it investigates the causes of corporate diversification by taking into account the overall...