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We empirically study the use of value-based management systems in listed German firms and examine implications for firms' stock market performance. Using a novel, hand-collected data set covering 1,083 firm years from 2002 to 2008, we find that value-based management systems become increasingly...
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While in the US stock-based incentives are commonly used since the 50s of the last century, in Germany they were invented only some ten years ago. Even in 1996 firms faced considerable regulatory difficulties when willing to grant such incentives. In the meantime the legal environment has...
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A financial system can only perform its function of channelling funds from savers to investors if it offers sufficient assurance to the providers of the funds that they will reap the rewards which have been promised to them. To the extent that this assurance is not provided by contracts alone,...
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This paper uses clinical evidence to show how the German system of corporate control and governance is both more active and more hostile than has previously been suggested. It provides a complete breakdown of ownership and take-over defence patterns in German listed companies and finds highly...
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den USA und Großbritannien. Die dortigen Märkte seien, so das ifh, zum einen nicht mit den europäischen Gegebenheiten … auf die bereits vorliegenden Forschungen zur Deregulierung durch die HwO-Novelle 2004 stützen könne. Jüngste Forschungen … sich nicht belegen, dass die Deregulierung des Handwerks seit 2004 zu einem Beschäftigungswachstum geführt habe. Die …
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Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasiparity codetermination at company level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and against codetermination and survey the empirical evidence on the effects of the institution, tracing...
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We first analyse legal provisions relating to corporate transparency in Germany. We show that despite the new securities trading law (WpHG) of 1995, the practical efficacy of disclosure regulation is very low. On the one hand, the formation of business groups involving less regulated legal forms...
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In diesem Arbeitspapier werden Merkmale von Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat, die Eigentümerstruktur und die Vergütung nicht-leitender Bankmitarbeiter sowie deren Zusammenhang mit dem Bankertrag und Bankrisiko untersucht. Diesem aktuellen Forschungsstand liegt ein Datensatz von 180...
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Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and against codetermination and survey the empirical evidence on the effects of the institution, tracing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269284