This study provides new stylized facts on the determinants of corporate failure and acquisition in Germany. It also offers important lessons for the design of empirical studies. We show that firms experiencing failure or acquisition are significantly different from surviving firms on a number of...

This study investigates the determinants of changes in corporate ownership and firm failure, taking into account different types of sellers and buyers of control blocks. For a large panel of German corporations we find that firms are more likely to fail or to be sold when performance is poor,...

This study examines managerial disciplining in poorly performing firms using large panels for Belgian, French, German and UK firms. We consider the monitoring role of large blockholders, the market for share blocks, creditors, and non-executive directors. Board restructuring is correlated to...

Die Entwicklung des Robo Advice bietet bankenunabhängigen FinTechs die Chance, sich Anteile am Markt für Anlageberatung, Vermittlung und Verwaltung von Finanzinstrumenten zu erobern. Dauerhaft werden sie sich allerdings nur dann als unabhängige Anbieter behaupten können, wenn ihnen alle...