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...

We investigate whether the diversification discount occurs partly as an artifact of poor corporate governance. In panel data models, we find that the discount narrows by 16% to 21% when we add governance variables as regression controls. We also estimate Heckman selection models that account for...