Der Beitrag diskutiert die Auswirkungen einer nicht-residualen Ausschüttungspolitik auf die Modigliani/Miller-Anpassungsformeln in einer Welt differenzierter, Dividenden, Zinsen und Kursgewinne unterschiedlich behandelnder persönlicher Steuern. Entsprechende Einflüsse auf den Zusammenhang...

Bei der Bewertung von Unternehmen ist es üblich, die erwarteten Überschussverteilungen mit Kapitalkosten zu diskontieren, welche aus dem Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) abgeleitet werden. In diesem Zusammenhang hat Richter unter der Prämisse eines Binomialmodells für die Entwicklung der...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the state of corporate governance as a major factor affecting the growth performance of the private sector in MENA countries. For this purpose both country-specific assessments, carried out by World Bank-IMF teams (so-called ROSC’s assessments) and...

In view of recent corporate scandals, it is argued that corporate governance can learn from public governance. Institutions devised to control and discipline the behaviour of executives in the political sphere can give new insights into how to improve the governance of firms. Some proposal such...

The publications about the transition of French corporate governance are controversial fluctuating between proposing the integration of socioeconomic qualities, to the fragmentation of different and persistent systems by the interdependence of their attributes, or the predominance of the...

The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to their performance. Based on a novel dataset covering Ukrainian joint stock companies in 2002-2006, the paper finds statistically significant negative association between the past performance of firms measured by...

Corporate Governance deals with the ways in which suppliers of finance to corporations assure themselves of getting a return on their investments. This paper analyses the effects of legal systems and accounting conservatism on corporate governance. The U.K. and American corporate governance...