Is it good or bad for senior executives to have strong interpersonal ties to the CEO? We argue that a strong relationship with the CEO raises the likelihood that a top manager stays in office or makes an upward career move when the CEO leaves office voluntarily. At the same time, such...

Is it good or bad for senior executives to have strong interpersonal ties to the CEO? We argue that a strong relationship with the CEO raises the likelihood that a top manager stays in office or makes an upward career move when the CEO leaves office voluntarily. At the same time, such...

Is it good or bad for senior executives to have strong interpersonal ties to the CEO? We argue that a strong relationship with the CEO raises the likelihood that a top manager stays in office or makes an upward career move when the CEO leaves office voluntarily. At the same time, such...

In ganz Europa sowie in den USA sind Banken seit einigen Jahren damit beschäftigt, die neueBaseler Eigenkapitalvereinbarung (Basel II) umzusetzen, welche unter anderem die Vorschriftenzur minimalen Eigenkapitalausstattung erweitert. Hierbei entstehen häufig aufwändigeInformationssysteme, mit...

Banks all over the world are still concerned with the implementation of the new Basel Accord forCapital Adequacy which refines – among others – the minimum capital requirements. In the lastyears huge silo-like structures for data acquisition, data management, and data processing havebeen...

We analyze the relative importance of firm-, industry-, and country-level factors as determinants of the level of ownership concentration of firms. Building particularly on the work of Demsetz & Lehn (1985), Thomsen & Pedersen (1999; 1997, 1998), and La Porta et al.(1998, 1999), we develop...