Berkshire Hathaway, among history's largest and most successful corporations, shuns middlemen; its chairman, the legendary investor Warren Buffett, excoriates financial intermediaries. The acquisitive conglomerate rarely borrows money, retains brokers, or hires consultants. Its governance is...

This paper proposes an implicit control mechanism of managers inside the firm. We argue that the need to motivate workers may make it beneficial for a self-interested, short-sighted manager to pursue long-run viability of the firm. When the firm is in a stable environment, this implicit control...

When a firm has external debt and monitoring by shareholders is essential, managerial bonuses are shown to be an optimal solution. A small managerial bonus linked to firm's performance not only reduces moral hazard between managers and shareholders, but also between creditors and monitoring...

Dieser Dieser Beitrag stellt zur Diskussion, welchen Beitrag die Compliance im Rahmen der Corporate Governance-Forschung einnehmen kann, wie sich diese Einordnung aus einer öko-nomischen Sichtweise heraus begründen lässt und welche Auswirkungen zu erwarten sind. Mag auf den ersten Blick der...