The question of whether the CEO should also serve as chairman of the board is one of the most hotly debated issues in the recent corporate governance discussion. While agencytheoretic arguments advocate a separation of decision and control functions, the empirical evidence focusing on U.S....

Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus drei unabhängigen wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten im Bereich Corporate Finance und untersucht empirisch den Einfluss von Governance-Charakteristika auf die Unternehmensperformance und auf Fusionen und Übernahmen, kurz M&As. Ausgehend von der...

The question of whether the CEO should also serve as chairman of the board is one of themost hotly debated issues in the recent corporate governance discussion. While agencytheoreticarguments advocate a separation of decision and control functions, the empiricalevidence focusing on U.S....

This paper investigates whether geographic diversification is value-enhancing or value-destroying in the financial services sector, broadly defined. Our dataset comprises approximately 3579 observations over the period from 1985 to 2004 and covers the entire range of U.S. financial...