The choice of legal form affects many aspects of the company's operation and is one of the key decisions that an entrepreneur must make. In this article, we conduct a comparative analysis of six legal forms of companies in terms of efficiency, indebtedness, growth and risk. Based on 72,596...

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...

We examine the effectiveness of the "Comply or Explain" approach to corporate governance in the UK. Using a unique database of 245 non-financial companies for the period 1998-2004, we find an increasing trend of compliance with the Combined Code, but a frequent use of standard explanations in...

Using a sample of 1470 cross-border mergers and acquisitions from 1997 through 2011, it finds two distinctive features of the financial market in China. First, better investor protection mechanisms at target countries, such as better law and order conditions, lower public sector corruption and...

Many scholars have linked Corporate Governance (CG) and performance or CG, capital structure of banks or market structure. The decision to use the capital market or debt in order to obtain the necessary capital to finance firms' operations is a critical factor for the formulation of corporate...