This paper investigates the wealth effects of private equity (PE) investor purchases of shares in German quoted companies. It is the first study to analyze these effects for the German market which is particularly interesting due to its distinct characteristics with regard to the ownership...

The paper shows that, as owners accumulate larger stakes and hence become less risk-tolerant, their incentives to monitor management are attenuated because monitoring shifts some of the firm's risk from management to owners. This counterbalances the positive effect which more concentrated...

The EU Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) is proposing a far-reaching "European Cybersecurity Certification Scheme for Cloud Services" (EUCS) to be established in the European Union (EU). According to the latest draft of August 2023, leaked by Politico in September 2023, the...

Die Verlagerung von On-Premise Infrastruktur und Workflows in die Cloud ist schon lange kein Trend mehr, sondern eine gängige und notwendige Unternehmenspraxis. Die Covid-19 Pandemie hat vielen Unternehmen gezeigt, was für eine zentrale Rolle die Nutzung von Cloud-Services heutzutage spielt....

Es stehen mittlerweile mehrere IaC-Tools zur Verfügung, um die Bereitstellung und Konfiguration der Cloud-Infrastruktur zu automatisieren. Mit der Fülle an Auswahlmöglichkeiten gestaltet sich der Auswahlprozess für das geeignete IaC-Tool zunehmend schwieriger. Zusätzlich mangelt es an einer...

Derzeit ist Cloud-Computing eine treibende Kraft in der aktuellen Digitalisierungsdebatte und verspricht Unternehmen jeder Größe viele Vorteile, wie z. B. geringere Einstiegskosten, größere Flexibilität und Skalierbarkeit sowie Kosteneinsparungen gegenüber klassischen IT-Lösungen....

This paper investigates the upcoming business model of online streaming services allowing music consumers either to subscribe to a service which provides free-of-charge access to streaming music and which is funded by advertising, or to pay a monthly flat fee in order to get ad-free access to...

This study examines the relation between corporate governance practices measured by Transparency Disclosure Index (TDI) and dividend policy in Poland. Our empirical approach, constructs measures of the quality of the corporate governance for 110 non-financial companies listed on Warsaw Stock...

Ongoing financial innovation and greater information availability increase the tradability of bank assets and reduce banks' dependence on individual bank managers as private information in the lending process declines. In this paper we argue that this has two effects on banks, with opposing...