This paper examines the impact of SOX on the total cost and the component cost of going public. First, we document a statistically significant increase in non-underwriting expenses of 0.8 percentage points after the introduction of SOX, which is mostly due to an increase in accounting and legal...

The U.S. is often seen as being the paradigmatic case of the shareholder-oriented or market-based model to corporate governance, and described in terms of several inter-related elements: activist institutional investors, an open market for corporate control, independent outside directors on the...

We study whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 made firms less opaque. For identification, we use a difference-in-differences estimation approach and compare EU firms that are cross-listed in the US—and therefore subject to SOX—with comparable EU firms that are not cross-listed. We...

In this paper we build a formal model to study market environments where information is costly to acquire and is of use also to potential competitors. In such situations a market for information may form, where reports - of unverifiable quality - over the information acquired are sold. A...

Die Implementierung umfassender Kontrollmechanismen und die in gleicher Weise effektive wie effiziente Überwachung von Kontrollen stellt für Unternehmen heute eine gleichermaßen aktuelle wie dringliche Herausforderung dar. Durch den Umfang der heutigen IT-Unterstützung der Geschäftsprozesse...

This paper examines the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), a legal framework intended to increase transparency and accountability of listed companies, on the cost of going public in the US. We expect SOX to increase the direct cost of going public, but decrease the underpricing because of...

Regulations in the pre-Sarbanes-Oxley era allowed corporate insiders considerable flexibility in strategically timing their trades and SEC filings, for example, by executing several trades and reporting them jointly after the last trade. We document that even these lax reporting requirements...

Die zum Jahressteuergesetz 2009 veröffentlichten aufsichtsrechtlichen Anforderungen stellen die Leasing-Branche vor neue Herausforderungen. Neben formellen Vorgaben nehmen qualitative Anforderungen an eine ordnungsgemäße Geschäftsorganisation an Bedeutung zu. Im Fokus steht eine an den...