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Law, Finance and Development : Further Analyses of Longitudinal Data
Sarkar, Prabirjit - 2010
four advanced countries, the UK, France, Germany and the USA. It examines two aspects of the legal origin hypothesis …-whether shareholder protection is higher in the common law countries (UK and USA) than in the civil law countries (France and Germany) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147418
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The Structure of the Board of Directors : Boards and Governance Strategies in the US, the UK and Germany
Hopt, Klaus J.; Leyens, Patrick C. - 2021
the US, the UK and Germany. France and Italy are also considered to round out the discussion of selected issues. Our key … in Germany, provide a basic governance structure that enables the use of specific governance strategies. It is the use of … supervisory board (Germany), and, as an alternative, reinstalling shareholder decision-making and thus removing the board from its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239424
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On the Road to Anglo-Saxon Capitalism? German Corporate Governance Regulation between Market and Multilevel Governance
Lütz, Susanne; Eberle, Dagmar - 2014
Financial internationalization and European regulatory harmonization put the German corporate governance regime under pressure to move towards a market-oriented, Anglo-Saxon model. While International Political Economy approaches expect Anglo-Saxon standards to spread across national borders,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050316
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Corporate governance and CEO turnover decisions
Dimopoulos, Theodosios; Wagner, Hannes - 2012 - This version: March 2012
U.K. and Germany over the period 1995-2005. We find that CEOs face a credible threat of being removed for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009558377
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The Rising Tension between Shareholder and Director Power in the Common Law World
Hill, Jennifer G. - 2020
This article explores the rising tension between shareholder and director power in the common law world. First the article analyzes key arguments in the shareholder empowerment debate, and current US reform proposals to grant shareholders stronger rights, from a comparative corporate law...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857567
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The Rise of the ‘Pre-Pack’ : Corporate Restructuring in the UK and Proposals for Reform
Armour, John - 2012
The practice of corporate restructuring in the UK has recently been transformed. The early twenty-first century has seen a tendency for corporate debt structures to be more fragmented, making informal renegotiation much more difficult to coordinate in times of financial distress. This has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104557
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Law, Finance and Development Further Analyses of Longitudinal Data
Sarkar, Prabirjit - 2011
advanced countries, UK, France, Germany and the US. It examines two aspects of the legal origin hypothesis - whether … shareholder protection is higher in the common law countries (UK and USA) than in the civil law countries (France and Germany) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134302
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The Cross-Country Comparability of IFRS Earnings and Book Values : Evidence from France and Germany
Liao, Qing - 2012
Beginning in 2005, the EU began requiring consolidated financial reports of publicly traded firms to be prepared in accordance with EU-endorsed International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in an effort to increase the comparability of financial information across EU Member States. While...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112946
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Common Roots, Divergent Evolution : Insider Trading Doctrine in the United States, Japan, and Germany
Heminway, Joan MacLeod - 2014
United States, Japan, and Germany and endeavors to place them in a meaningful international legal, political, economic, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054061
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Comparative Company Law
Hopt, Klaus J. - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051388