World championship in exporting manufactures notwithstanding, weak gross domestic product (GDP) growth and the largest number of unemployed since the 1930s have tarnished the splendor of Germany's once celebrated social market economy (SME). In search of the reasons for their country's present...

Main description: Die Wahl der geeigneten Rechtsform stellt Unternehmen vor ein vielschichtiges Entscheidungsproblem. Dabei rücken Corporate Governance-Aspekte, angetrieben durch die aktuell aufgeladene Debatte um eine ordnungsgemäße Unternehmensführung, zunehmend in den Mittelpunkt. Die...

The developments of company law in countries belonging to five legal families illustrate the principle-agent conflicts that company law faces and the range of solutions it offers to cope with them. Comparative company law is about learning from each other's experience in a competitive way, and...

This paper discusses the German conflict of law rules as they apply to companies (ie, the private international law of companies in Germany). Amongst others, it addresses the connecting factor, the scope of the lex societatis, outreach statutes and the possibility of reincorporations in German...

This paper analyses the German corporate law reform's effect on the publicly listed companies' ownership and performance. First, theoretically plausible implications of the most important laws that were issued 1990-2009 are provided, then an empirical analysis using 1997-2008 panel data...