Abstract: Im Mittelpunkt des Werkes steht die Suche nach einer angemessenen Erklärung des Underpricing von Aktienerstemissionen. Eine ausführliche Analyse bestehender Modelle zeigt eine Vorherrschaft formaler Gleichgewichtskonzepte der neoklassischen Informationsökonomie. Keiner der aktuellen...

Taking into account that it is in the nature of the modern corporat ion that risks are distributed over several agents, we discuss in this paper the organisational behaviour as it results from such dispersal of responsibilities for both the principal and the agent. We explore the hypothesis that...

The central hypothesis of this article is that liability regulation can foster firms' incentives to study the (potential) dangers of their products. We discuss alternative views and develop a formal model to analyze a firm's incentive structure under the application of hindsight liability. We...