The U.S. is often seen as being the paradigmatic case of the shareholder-oriented or market-based model to corporate governance, and described in terms of several inter-related elements: activist institutional investors, an open market for corporate control, independent outside directors on the...

This paper examines the impact of SOX on the total cost and the component cost of going public. First, we document a statistically significant increase in non-underwriting expenses of 0.8 percentage points after the introduction of SOX, which is mostly due to an increase in accounting and legal...

The U.S. is often seen as being the paradigmatic case of the shareholder-oriented or market-based model to corporate governance, and described in terms of several inter-related elements: activist institutional investors, an open market for corporate control, independent outside directors on the...

We study whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 made firms less opaque. For identification, we use a difference-in-differences estimation approach and compare EU firms that are cross-listed in the US—and therefore subject to SOX—with comparable EU firms that are not cross-listed. We...

Die in diesem Arbeitspapier enthaltende Darstellung dokumentiert Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojekts als Forschungs- und Entwicklungsvorhaben im Verbund (FuE-Verbundforschung) im Rahmen der Förderung von Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovation des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern mit Mitteln des...

In this paper we build a formal model to study market environments where information is costly to acquire and is of use also to potential competitors. In such situations a market for information may form, where reports - of unverifiable quality - over the information acquired are sold. A...

Bei b?rsennotierten Aktiengesellschaften ist im Rahmen der Abschlusspr?fung die Erf?llung der Vorstandsverpflichtung nach ? 91 Abs. 2 AktG zu beurteilen. Der Anwendungsbereich der Vorstandsverpflichtung in ? 91 Abs. 2 AktG umfasst nicht nur das Risikofr?herkennungssystem, sondern erstreckt sich...