Recent ”law and finance” research implies that minority shareholder rights are heavily affected by the legal tradition. This in turn has economic implications for a company´s ability to raise equity capital from outsiders, i.e., from minority investors. In a famous study by La Porta et al....

Ein kurzes Fazit: Mit der SE ist eine zeitgemäße Gesellschaftsform zur Wahl gestellt, dievielfältige Einsatzmöglichkeiten bei grenzüberschreitenden Transaktionen bereitstellt.Ihr besonderer Vorzug liegt in der Schaffung einer europäischen Identität. Dieser Vorzug hatauch durch das...

This article reviews Germany's corporate governance system and the effectiveness of recent reforms. Since the early 1990s far-reaching reforms have complemented the traditional stakeholder system with important elements of the shareholder system. Instead of taking a view on the superiority of...

Although it is widely acknowledged that the benefits of corporate governance reform could be substantial, systematic evidence on such reforms is scant. We both document and evaluate a contemporary corporate governance reform by constructing 18 measures of shareholder and creditor protection for...