...Allerdings existiert noch keine umfassende empirische Studie zum Einfluss der Corporate Governance auf den Unternehmenswertschweizerischer Firmen. Diese Lücke soll durch die vorliegende Arbeit geschlossen werden.

We show that portfolio sorts, as widely used in empirical asset pricing, tend to misattribute cross-sectional return predictability to the firm characteristic underlying the sort. Such misattribution arises if the sorting variable correlates with a firm-specific effect capturing unobservable...

We show that portfolio sorts, as widely used in empirical asset pricing, tend to misattribute cross-sectional return predictability to the firm characteristic underlying the sort. Such misattribution arises if the sorting variable correlates with a firm-specific effect capturing unobservable...

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the role of trust in the relationship between venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Following the social sciences literature, we try to differentiate between trust as an affective, value-based category from confidence which is understood as a...

This paper presents an integrated analysis of the relationships between managerial share ownership (or alternatively the percentage of equity-based compensation), four additional corporate governance mechanisms, and firm value by explicitly incorporating the simultaneity of the process...

Recent empirical research shows evidence of a positive relationship between the quality of firm-specific corporate governance and firm valuation. Instead of looking at one single corporate governance mechanism in isolation, we construct a broad corporate governance index and apply five...

We investigate the valuation effects of leadership structure in Switzerland where, in contrast to the U.S., a separation of the CEO and chairman functions is common. Consistent with the majority of prior research focusing on the U.S., we find no evidence of a systematic and significant...

This paper empirically investigates the impact of both the first release of analysts' stock recommendations to a limited clientele and the subsequent dissemination of the same information in a major newspaper to a broader audience. For a sample of 1460 stock recommendations published in FuW,...

Recent empirical work shows evidence of a positive relationship between firm-specific corporate governance and firm valuation. Instead of looking at a single control mechanism, we use a broad corporate governance index and additional variables related to ownership structure, board...

Die Diskussion über die Qualität guter Corporate Governance und deren Auswirkung auf den Unternehmenswert beschäftigt Wissenschaft und Praxis seit mehreren Jahren. Allerdings existiert noch keine umfassende empirische Studie zum Einfluss der Corporate Governance auf den Unternehmenswert...