Essays on empirical corporate finance and corporate governance

Fernau, Erik

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URL:	https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/34835
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-348356
Document Type:	Doctoral dissertation
Year of publication:	2013
Place of publication:	Mannheim
University:	Universität Mannheim
Evaluator:	Theissen, Erik
Date of oral examination:	30 October 2013
Publication language:	English
Institution:	Business School > ABWL u. Finanzierung (Theissen 2009-)
Subject:	330 Economics
Subject headings (SWD):	Aufsichtsrat , Vorstand , Vergütung , Dividende , Aktienrückkauf , Panelanalyse
Keywords (English):	Executive compensation , director compensation , manager fixed effects , executive fixed effects , director fixed effects , board structure , two-tiered board , dividends , stock repurchases , Lintner model
Abstract:	In three self-contained essays, this dissertation deals with the impact of board structure on firm performance and with determinants of executive compensation, director compensation, and payout policy. Each of the three chapters is based on panel data sets of German firms. Distinguishing features of the institutional environment of German firms lead to new and interesting insights compared to the evidence for the US market. Chapter 2 explores the impact of former CEOs on the supervisory board on firm value, operating performance and executive as well as director compensation. The strict institutional separation of managers with leadership/advisory and managers with monitoring tasks within the two-tiered board system also enables the investigation of their absolute and relative importance in explaining firm performance in Chapter 3. Using different Lintner-type partial adjustment models competing theories regarding the choice of dividends and stock repurchases as payout methods are tested in Chapter 4.