This dissertation is a collection of three stand-alone research papers written as part of the doctoral program in “Quantitative Economics and Finance” at the University of Konstanz during my time as a research assistant at the University of Vienna.The focus of previous research on...

Gegenstand der Betrachtung ist die Arbeit der Aufsichtsräte in den DAX 30-Unternehmen. Aufgrund der nationalen und internationalen Kritik in den 1990er Jahren strebte die deutsche Bundesregierung nach einer Anlehnung des deutschen Corporate-Governance-Systems an internationale Gepflogenheiten....

Design standards are carriers and creators of facts, enabling facts about product value to travel between groups, and assisting in the creation of product value by establishing a reference or comparison against which product attributes are compared. However, when design standards are not...