Anglo-American stock markets are much larger than their continental counterparts. Does investor protection and governance explain these differences? Using UK data, we examine four different forms of intervention which are suppose to promote good governance: takeovers, independent directors,...

„Dieses Buch schafft in einer für Einsteiger wie für Experten gleichermaßen gewinnenden Weise einen systematischen Einstieg in alle relevanten Prozesse von der strategischen Planung, über die Bewertung bis hin zur Integration von Unternehmenszusammenschlüssen.“ Dr. Paul Achleitner,...

This study investigates the determinants of changes in corporate ownership and firm failure, taking into account different types of sellers and buyers of control blocks. For a large panel of German corporations we find that firms are more likely to fail or to be sold when performance is poor,...