The Berle-Means problem - information and incentive asymmetries disrupting relations between knowledgeable managers and remote investors - has remained a durable issue engaging researchers since the 1930's. However, the Berle-Means paradigm - widely-dispersed, helpless investors facing strong,...

This paper presents a positive model which shows that institutional setups on capital and labor markets might be intertwined by politicoeconomic forces. Some countries especially in continental Europe exhibit a corporatist politicoeconomic equilibrium with a sustantial protection of insiders on...

We study when firms choose to install boards and their roles in a historical setting where neither boards nor their duties are mandated by law. Boards arise in firms with large, heterogenous shareholder bases. We propose that an important role of boards is to mediate between heterogenous...

Problemstellung -- Die Leitfragen zur Evaluation des Aufsichtsrats -- Theoretisches und empirisches Wissen zur Effektivität und Effizienz des Aufsichtsrats: Eine Bestandsaufnahme -- Das Konzept zur Evaluation des Aufsichtsrats -- Die empirische Untersuchung -- Evaluation des Aufsichtsrats: Ein...