Das internationale Bankensystem stand in den vergangenen Jahren im Fokus des öffentlichen Interesses. Bei der Diskussion möglicher Optionen zur Verbesserung der Finanzsystemstabilität rückt zunehmend die Corporate Governance in Banken in den Fokus. Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht widmet...

This dissertation includes two essays on the economic aspects of information security. The first essay presents a principal-agent model for assessing the value of information security audits. The issue of information security investments is confounded by control problems arising from asymmetric...

This study investigates the long-run stock performance following dividend omissions and reductions, and looks for answers for three questions: 1) Does the market underreact to announcement of dividend omissions and reductions? 2) if the market does, how long does it take for the market to...

This dissertation examines the wealth effects of bank mergers onbidder, target, and combined firm shareholders for a sample of785 mergers during the period 1980-2000. The dissertationemploys two unique bank event study methodologies to calculateabnormal returns for bidder, target and combined...