Deutsche Zusammenfassung: Die Treuepflicht des Vorstands (duty of loyalty) in der Aktiengesellschaft ist im deutschen Aktienrecht, aber auch in den meisten ausländischen Rechtsordnungen anerkannt. Sie steht als besondere, organschaftliche Pflicht neben der allgemeinen Sorgfaltspflicht (duty of...

The article examines the European Commission proposal to amend the shareholder rights directive and the the preparations of an informal trialogue of the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament concerning the provision on related party transactions. Both the international...

The European Central Bank's balance sheet policies have been criticized as ineffective or even harmful to the economy. This paper aims at gauging the effects on financial markets, the banking sector and lending to non-financial firms. Using a structural vector autoregression analysis, we find...

The current paper broadens the understanding for the role of uncertainty in the context of a macroeconomic environment. It focuses on the implications of uncertainty shocks on indicators that tend to precede financial crises. In an empirical analysis we show for a set of four euro area countries...

The current paper broadens the understanding of the role played by uncertainty in the context of macroeconomic fluctuations. It focuses on the implications of uncertainty shocks for indicators that tend to precede financial crises. In an empirical analysis we show for a set of four euro area...

The German Bundesbank has since the 1970s focussed its monetary policy on controlling the rate of inflation. The price stability-oriented course in monetary policy was enshrined in the Bundesbank Act and in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) as part of the third stage of...

In our dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, capital-constrained entrepreneurs finance risky projects by borrowing from banks. Banks make loans using equity and deposits. Because financial contracts are non-state-contingent, bank balance sheets are exposed to entrepreneurial defaults....

The European Commission launched, in April 2014, a new initiative to amend the shareholder rights directive as regards to the encouragement of long-term shareholder engagement. Under this heading, the Commission proposal intends to grant rights to shareholders concerning director remuneration...

Statutory auditors serve as an integral device to safeguard confidence in European financial markets. The market for corporate auditing is highly concentrated. A collapse of one of the top four auditing firms could cause a severe lack in the availability of auditing services. In a 2007 Staff...