In April 2006, in the UK, came into force new rules relating to the obligations incumbent upon business owners if they pursue their alienation. These regulations come to meet several Europeandirective which seeks to ensure employees' rights and prevent any abuses. In this respect, the main...

The Berle-Means problem - information and incentive asymmetries disrupting relations between knowledgeable managers and remote investors - has remained a durable issue engaging researchers since the 1930's. However, the Berle-Means paradigm - widely-dispersed, helpless investors facing strong,...

We study when firms choose to install boards and their roles in a historical setting where neither boards nor their duties are mandated by law. Boards arise in firms with large, heterogenous shareholder bases. We propose that an important role of boards is to mediate between heterogenous...

This volume was prepared by Marc Piopiunik while he has been working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained empirical studies. All studies aim at...

Bei qualifikationsspezifischen Arbeitslosenquoten, die mit zunehmendem Ausbildungsstand fallen, investieren Individuen zu wenig in ihre Ausbildung. Sie berücksichtigen ihre Ansprüche auf Lohnersatzleistungen und bewerten daher mögliche Zeiten der Arbeitslosigkeit zu günstig. Dies kann...