Purpose: In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the influence of competitive compensation systems on employee risk taking has gained increasing attention. As the renouncement of such incentive schemes might entail severe disadvantages regarding employee motivation, standard setters have...

Managing a firm’s current assets and liabilities (working capital management) is highly relevant to the success of that firm. While the short-term liquidity effects of working capital management are straightforward to derive, it is an empirical question how it affects firm profitability. This...

Die freiwillige Unternehmenspublizität dient vor allem der Information der Investoren zum Abbau von Informationsasymmetrien und einer Minderung von Prinzipal-Agent-Konflikten. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysiert der vorliegende Beitrag Befunde zu den mit einer Veröffentlichung einhergehenden...

Purpose – The tax advantage of debt is considered an important motivation for highly leveraged transactions. The German government limited the tax deductibility of interest expenses to 30.0 percent of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (the interest barrier rule)...