In den letzten Jahren schien der Finanzausgleich unter den Ländern das wichtigste finanzpolitische Thema in der Bundesrepublik zu sein. Zu politischen Schlagzeilen gelangte der darüber geführte Streit durch die Klage Bayerns und Hessens vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht ab März 2013. Dadurch...

Derzeit beklagen die Länder Bayern und Hessen vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht ihre Zahlerlasten im Länderfinanzausgleich. Sie wollen erreichen, dass das geltende Finanzausgleichsgesetz nicht erst Ende 2019, sondern schon vorher durch eine Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts außer...

With its judgement on the federal budget, the German Federal Constitutional Court has thrown the government's financial planning into disarray. Important public investments are at stake, as the debt brake sets tight limits for the treasury and debt-financed shadow budgets. But the green...

Die Bilanz der Bundesbank und jene anderer Notenbanken des Euroraums weisen aktuell hohe "operative" Verluste auf, bedingt durch die Diskrepanz aus den weiterhin niedrig verzinsten Wertpapierbeständen aus Anleihekäufen und den mittlerweile höher verzinsten Einlagen der Geschäftsbanken. Indes...

Despite their growing importance in recent years, delistings of secondary listings have received very little attention. This article investigates whether a delisting is accompanied by any price or volume effects on the company's primary exchange. We apply a standard event study methodology to...

The questions of who should define the goals and objectives of a firm, and whether they should be defined in such a way so as to give a certain level of recognition to the well-being of other groups interested in the long-term success of the company and not only to the interests of the...

The global financial crisis significantly affected the viability of the financial system and the structure of equity markets. In this study, we investigate the phenomenon of family and non-family firms' delisting decisions from the Prime Standard, the highest regulated stock market segment in...

This study investigates the listing of IPOs and the delisting from the Prime Standard, the highest regulated stock exchange segment in Germany. The German Stock Exchange instituted this market segment subsequent to the high-technology new economy period in 2003. For a sample of 531 firms, we...

This study examines whether parity codetermination at German supervisory boards improves labor investment efficiency at firm level. We focus on labor, as it is an important production factor. Labor investment decisions are not easily reversible in the short term, given that hiring and firing...