This paper presents a positive model which shows that institutional setups on capital and labor markets might be intertwined by politicoeconomic forces. Some countries especially in continental Europe exhibit a corporatist politicoeconomic equilibrium with a sustantial protection of insiders on...

This paper proposes to exploit a reform in legal rules of corporate governance to identify contractual incentives from the correlation of executive pay and firm performance. In particular, we refer to a major shift in the legal and institutional environment, the reform of the German joint-stock...

This paper presents a positive model which shows that institutional setups on capital and labor markets might be intertwined by politicoeconomic forces. Two politicoeconomic equilibria arise from our model, one with little protection of insiders on capital and labor markets, and another one with...

This paper uses a quasi-experimental framework provided by recent changes in Russian corporate law to study the effect of investor protection on the value of shares. The legal change analyzed involves the empowerment of preferred (non-voting) shareholders to veto unfavorable changes in their...

This paper uses a quasi-experimental framework provided by recent changes in Russian corporate law to study the effect of investor protection on the value of shares. The legal change analyzed involves the empowerment of preferred (non-voting) shareholders to veto unfavorable changes in their...

Die Aktiengesellschaft ist eine Gesellschaft mit eigener Rechtspersönlichkeit, deren Grundkapital in Aktien zerlegt ist und die den Gläubigern nur mit dem Gesellschaftsvermögen haftet (§ 1 AktG). Sie ist ihrer Struktur nach Organisationsform für Publikumsgesellschaften. Der Gesetzgeber hat...

We analyze governance with a dataset on investments of venture capitalists in 3848 portfolio firms in 39 countries from North and South America, Europe and Asia spanning 1971-2003. We find that cross-country differences in Legality have a significant impact on the governance structure of...

Due to judicial decisions the stock market prices are deemed to be the lower value limit in determining the compensations within structural measures according to German stock corporation law (e.g. squeeze-out of minority stockholders). By applying other valuation methods, in particular the...

Durch das Gesetz zur Angemessenheit der Vorstandsvergütung vom 18.6.2009 wurde vieles im bereich der Managervergütung neu geregelt. Schon bald aber war die reichweite des Gesetzes außerhalb der Aktiengesellschaft und im Konzern umstritten.Zwei Themen werden in dem Gutachten von Spindler (S. 7...

Die Transformation Tschechiens galt bisher als Modell für die Einführung der Marktwirtschaft mit einer raschen Privatisierung und einem blühenden Kapitalmarkt. Fehlende und unzureichende Gesetze enthielten jedoch zahlreiche Schlupflöcher für Wirtschaftskriminalität und korrumpierten die...