This study considers the trade-off between better top management team (TMT) decision-making involving complementary perspectives and inefficiencies due to conflicts between individuals. In analyzing characteristics of 1,071 fund partners involved in 1,295 buyout deals by 117 funds, we find that...

Pre-bid target share price movements are potentially increasing the cost of takeovers and thus are seen as a detriment for the efficiency of the market for corporate control. This pa-per investigates the relationship of pre-bid stock price movements, takeover regulation and offer premium and...

This paper analyses the tax shield under realistic assumptions: no immediate refund and potential corporate bankruptcy for different financing policies. Assuming a German setting, we additionally investigate the impact of the interest ceiling (“Zinsschranke”) introduced by the German Tax...

Costs of Financial Distress: The German Evidence In this paper we aim to verify the existence of costs of financial distress (cfd) for a sample of German CDAX firms using an ex-post approach originally due to Opler/Titman (1994). In contrast to this US-based study we do not find a significant...