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Stock Price Reaction to Supervisory Board Interventions : Empirical Evidence from Germany
Vetter, Karin - 2015
Within the discussion about an efficient corporate governance system, considerable attention has been paid to the supervisory board's responsibility to monitor top executives raising the question about the value relevance of supervisory board's actions (i.e., control). We conduct an event study...
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Outside Director Liability : German Stock Corporation Law in Transatlantic Perspective
Roth, Markus - 2010
The role of outside directors is one of the key features in the transatlantic corporate governance debate. As their importance rises, their liability is also attracting attention. Since there are only a few cases internationally in which outside directors of listed companies have been held...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137966
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The Dialogue between the Chairman of the Board and Investors : The Practice in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany and the Future of the German Corporate Governance Code Under the...
Hopt, Klaus J. - 2017
The dialogue of the board and its chairman with investors is an established practice in many countries, such as the United Kingdom, the USA, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and recently also Germany. In the UK this dialogue covers the whole range of relevant board topics, certainly including...
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On the Road to Anglo-Saxon Capitalism? German Corporate Governance Regulation between Market and Multilevel Governance
Lütz, Susanne; Eberle, Dagmar - 2014
Financial internationalization and European regulatory harmonization put the German corporate governance regime under pressure to move towards a market-oriented, Anglo-Saxon model. While International Political Economy approaches expect Anglo-Saxon standards to spread across national borders,...
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The Structure of the Board of Directors : Boards and Governance Strategies in the US, the UK and Germany
Hopt, Klaus J.; Leyens, Patrick C. - 2021
target companies. To achieve this effect, it must be ensured that takeover defenses are adopted in the interest of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239424
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Index Fund and ETF Ownership and the German Market for Corporate Control
Dobmeier, Ludwig - 2019
If a bidder launches a takeover offer for a listed company being part of a stock market index, then index funds and …. This paper analyzes the impact of index fund and ETF ownership on the success of takeover offers in Germany. Based on a … sample of 323 takeover offers of publicly listed German companies between 2006 and 2018, we document a significant negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864050
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Value Relevance of Mergers Blocked by Shareholder Lawsuits According to the German Stock Corporation Act : An Event Study
Labrenz, Helfried - 2014
This paper analyses lawsuits against shareholders' resolutions according to the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) and the German Reorganisation Act (UmwG). A merger passed at the General Annual Meeting will not move forward as long as any lawsuit is pending with a court. In particular, mergers...
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Angleichung der Unternehmensverfassung in Europa: ein Forschungsprogramm
Schmidt, Reinhard H.; Grohs, Stefanie - 1999
Aus dem weiten Spektrum ökonomisch relevanter Fragen, die die europäische Integration und das Gesellschaftsrecht verbinden, soll hier diejenige herausgegriffen werden, ob sich die nationalen Corporate-Governance-Systeme in den großen europäischen Volkswirtschaften Deutschlands, Frankreichs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316249
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Wer den Kodex nicht einhält, den bestraft der Kapitalmarkt?
Mahr, Till G.; Rott, Roland; Nowak, Eric - 2004
Seit der Einführung des Deutschen Corporate Governance Kodex (Kodex) im Jahr 2002 sind deutsche börsennotierte Unternehmen zur Abgabe der Entsprechenserklärung gemäß § 161 AktG verpflichtet (Comply-or-Explain-Prinzip). Auf der Basis dieser Information soll durch den Druck des Kapitalmarkts...
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Der europäische Markt für Unternehmenskontrolle zwischen Konvergenz und Divergenz
Klein, Achim - 2006
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