All good comes at a price. The German corporatetax reform is good overall,1 but the major benefit,the tax rate cut, comes with a tightened andhighly detrimental change of ownership rule. TheGerman term Mantelkauf, literally translated as‘‘coat purchase,’’ is deceiving — it sounds and...

Little is known about the relationship between family firms and their employees. This paper aims to close this gap. We distinguish between family management and family ownership as two dimensions of family firms and analyze their respective influence on downsizing. Our findings show that family...