Ablauf der Spin-off-Transaktion und rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen -- Shareholder-Value-Orientierung börsennotierter Unternehmen -- Die Überrendite als Indikator des Investors -- Wahl des Benchmark-Index.

This paper is aimed at exploring how X-efficiency or management quality is associated with one of the most vivid forms of international banking, that is, entering new markets by setting up foreign subsidiaries. The analysis focuses on the supposition that management quality ought to be one of...

Bank intermediated finance has been cited frequently as the preferred means for channeling funds from savers to firms. Germany is the prototypical economy where universal banks allegedly exert substantial influence over firms. Despite frequent assertions about the considerable power of German...