We analyze director compensation in German listed firms for the time period 2005 to 2009. Our sample covers all listed companies in the German Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, specifically firms with shares listed in the indices of DAX, MDAX, SDAX and TecDAX. The aim of the...

We document three current trends in the compensation of non-executive directors in Germany. First, firms increasingly use performance-insensitive variable pay components, like committee and attendance fees. Second, this comes at the expense of performance-oriented variable pay components, which...

New shares of seasoned equity offerings are often issued with a sustainable discount. This discount implies a dilution in the sphere of old shareholders. Now, at least in Germany the old shareholders are commonly compensated for the dilution effect by issuing rights. However, the dilution also...

We empirically study the use of value-based management systems in listed German firms and examine implications for firms' stock market performance. Using a novel, hand-collected data set covering 1,083 firm years from 2002 to 2008, we find that value-based management systems become increasingly...