Our study is the first to provide systematic evidence of a hump-shaped CEO tenure-firm value relation. This pattern is supported by announcement returns to sudden CEO deaths, which mitigate endogeneity concerns. Cross-sectionally, firm value starts to decline after fewer years of CEO tenure in...

Das vorliegende Dissertationsprojekt gibt Einblicke in Unternehmensrestrukturierungen und identifiziert Leistungstreiber von Equity Carve-Out (ECO) und Spin-off. Ziel der Dissertation ist es, zu verifizieren, ob ECO- und Spin-off-Transaktionen Unternehmenswert schaffen und zu evaluieren, ob die...

The question of whether the CEO should also serve as chairman of the board is one of the most hotly debated issues in the recent corporate governance discussion. While agencytheoretic arguments advocate a separation of decision and control functions, the empirical evidence focusing on U.S....