Die inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte der Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Manfred Steiner liegen in den Bereichen Finanzielle Unternehmensführung und Shareholder Value, Unternehmensbewertung sowie Kreditwürdigkeitsprüfung und Rating. Darüber hinaus sind Beiträge zu Finanzinnovationen, zum...

We expand on research concerning the well-pronounced influence of geographical peer groups on human behavior. For this purpose, bank-specific risk-taking behavior and its relation to culturally close banks – measured by geographical as well as linguistic distance – is examined. We...

This study aggregates prior research on the speed of adjustment (SOA) towards target capital structure, which is characterized by its heterogeneous findings. Therefore, the statistical procedures of meta-regression analysis are applied for the first time in this line of research. Summarizing...