Intracorporate arbitration provisions (IAPs) shift disputes over firms' internal affairs from public courts to private arbitration. These disputes affect the agency costs associated with governing a company, which in turn affect firm value. Thus, a firm that adopts an IAP should expect it to...

This paper presents clinically-based studies of two acquisitions that received very different stock market reactions at announcement one positive and one negative. Despite the differing market reactions, we find that ultimately neither acquisition created value overall. In exploring the reasons...

This paper analyzes certain effects of insider trading on the principal-agent problem in corporations. Specifically, we focus on those managerial choices that confront managers with the need to decide between options that produce different corporate value but do not differ in the managerial...

Grundlagen -- Modell zur akquisitionsbedingten Wertänderung von Akquisitionssubjekten -- Empirische Untersuchung -- Anwendung der Ergebnisse der empirischen Studie auf aktuelle Unternehmensakquisitionen -- Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse.