Germany

An American Perspective on the New German Anti-takeover Law

Bankers on the Boards of German Firms: What they do, what they are worth, and why they are (still) there

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...

The German Law of and Experience with the Supervisory Board

Together with a number of other countries including China Germany has a two-tier board system, i.e. its stock corporation law provides for the division...

Do Bankruptcy Codes Matter? A Study of Defaults in France, Germany, and the UK

Dividend policy of German firms. A dynamic panel data analysis of partial adjustment models

The Origins of the German Corporation - Finance, Ownership and Control

Stewardship 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...

When do German firms change their dividends?

Takeovers, Secrecy, and Conflicts of Interest: Problems for Boards and Banks

The 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’...

Changing 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...