Financial globalization is an inherent feature of today’s economies. But the positive impact of financial globalization has been limited and some puzzling evidence has been found recently. To explain these puzzles, Stulz argued that finance is critically affected by Twin Agency Problems: firstly, the controlling shareholders can use their power for their own benefit but at the expense of outside investors. Secondly, the state rulers can use their power to improve their own welfare at the expense of all shareholders. When these agency problems worsen, diffuse ownership is inefficient and ownership concentration is the best choice. Ownership concentration inversely limits a country’s ability to benefit from financial globalization. On the bas...
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This dissertation contributes to the empirical analysis of economic development. The continuing pove...
After the reunification of Germany, the Schwerin retail trade sector experienced a considerable grow...
This cumulative dissertation, containing three independent manuscripts, addresses the strategic inte...
Die Wirtschaftsentwicklung Chinas gilt gegenwärtig als die dynamischste auf der Welt. Doch ein genau...
This dissertation provides evidence about the relationship between the characteristics of different ...
The thesis contains three essays in the realm of information economics and industrial organization. ...
The established theories on the performance of the foreign firm in host country markets raise a puzz...
The global financial crisis of 2007/08 uncovered the need to integrate financial- and credit market ...
The present thesis “Corporate Governance and Earnings Quality in China” investigates different facto...
Because of increasing resource prices and thus, higher export profits, resource abundant countries b...
Auslandsbanken gewinnen in Deutschland eine immer größere Bedeutung. Obgleich der von der Bundesbank...
Corporate Governance steht für gute und verantwortungsvolle Unternehmensführung. Dieser Ordnungsrah...
The importance of liquidity for banks and even for nation states has been demonstrated once more by ...
Within the puzzle of why conflict persists in natural resource rich countries, and why in the critic...
Aus der Vielzahl der damit verbundenen Probleme sollen im Folgenden einige Aspekte etwas näher betra...
This dissertation contributes to the empirical analysis of economic development. The continuing pove...
After the reunification of Germany, the Schwerin retail trade sector experienced a considerable grow...
This cumulative dissertation, containing three independent manuscripts, addresses the strategic inte...