Our paper contributes to the literature on executive successors other than the CEO by adding empirical evidence for CFO succession. We propose that the selection of outside successors may be contingent on the succession context and on the type of managerial role. We postulate that...

Recently, Chinese firms have become more active in attempting to go public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FWB). This paper uses multivaria te probit analysis to test the motivations of Chinese firms to list on the FWB. In general, Chinese firms are driven by the following motivations. Firstly,...

This paper uses panel cointegration with a corresponding vector error correction model (VECM) to investigate the changes in the value relevance of accounting information before and after the mandatory adoption of IFRS in Germany and the UK under three different valuation models. First, a basic...