Im Zentrum der Diskussion steht dabei der aus dem angelsächsischen Wirtschaftsraum stammende Shareholder-value-Ansatz, der auf die Maximierung des Marktwertes des Eigenkapitals1 zielt und mithin eine klare Ausrichtung der Unternehmensführung an den finanziellen Interessen der Anteilseigner...

Der Autor stellt ein Konzept eines wertorientierten Risikomanagements für Banken vor.

[...]In this paper, we employ a different empirical strategy tostudy the effects of ownership structure on firm performancethat is free from any corporate events in the ratherhomogenous banking industry. In essence, the performance ofpublicly traded bank holding companies (BHCs) is comparedwith...

[...]A fundamental objective of governance research inaccounting is to investigate the properties of accountingsystems and the surrounding institutional environmentimportant to the effective governance of firms. Bushman andSmith (2001) provide an extensive survey and discussion ofgovernance...

[...]In this paper, we study the strength of incentive featuresin banks’ top-management compensation contracts. Weexamine the properties of bank-management compensationstructures, including pay-performance sensitivity, using datafrom 1992 to 2000. Based on existing theory, we hypothesizethat...

[...]We discuss the potential benefits and costs associated withsome of the corporate governance variables for an average firm.However, we stress that all of these variables are ultimately partof a simultaneous system that determines the corporation’svalue and the allocation of such value...