Working Paper
Private Equity Buyouts and Employee Health
We relate employees' health to their productivity to analyze the restructuring of the labor force during Private Equity buyouts using employee-level...
Read moreTaking Shareholder Protection Seriously? Corporate Governance in the United States and Germany
The paper undertakes a comparative study of the set of laws affecting corporate governance in the United States and Germany, and an evaluation of their...
Read moreChanging Patterns of Corporate Disclosure in Continental Europe: The Example of Germany
This article presents a structural overview of corporate disclosure in Germany against the background of a rapidly evolving European market. It fi rst...
Read moreStewardship and Shareholder Engagement in Germany
Corporate stewardship holds great promise for the improvement of shareholder engagement and the encouragement of more responsible and long-term...
Read moreSubprime Crisis and Board (In-)Competence: Private vs. Public Banks in Germany
We examine evidence for a systematic underperformance of Germany's state-owned banks in the current financial crisis and study if the bank losses can be...
Read moreThe Structure of the Board of Directors: Boards and Governance Strategies in the US, the UK and Germany
The chapter continues and advances our earlier research on ‘Board Models in Europe’.** We explore ‘The Structure of the Board of Directors’...
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