By summarizing and further developing the state of empirical research on supervisory board codetermination, this paper … contributes to the recent debate over codetermination’s future. Company level codetermination is widely spread among EU countries …. Neither company comparisons nor country data confirm that codetermination decreases profitability or share prices. The paper …

participation via works councils. This implies that the codetermination- free zone is not to be equated with an absence of …

distinct phases in the economic analysis of codetermination at the workplace. While Frege just considered studies from the … der empirischen Evidenz beruht. Dabei werden drei Phasen der ökonomischen Analyse der betrieblichen Mitbestimmung …

Since 1920, the thrust of German law on workplace codetermination has changed on a number of occasions. We describe the … some new results from matched-plant data. If the former evidence points to a codetermination deficit, this shortfall does …

codetermination if (1) employees' representatives make up half of the supervisory board, (2) the supervisory board has a neutral … requisite data from 82 of the 100 largest German companies, we find high levels of codetermination mainly within the cross … hypotheses about the determinants of different levels of supervisory board codetermination and assumptions about codetermination …