2008
DOI: 10.1017/s0008197308000056
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Auditors' Liability and Its Impact on the European Financial Markets

Abstract: In 2007 the European Commission produced a Staff Working Paper seeking consultation on the development of auditors' liability in Europe. The present article represents the views of the Working Group on the subject set up by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg.

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“…Currently, in the United States, Europe, and other jurisdictions, there is an intense public policy debate on placing caps on the liability of auditors in civil lawsuits. On the one hand, there is a concern that no one will supply audits because the large potential liabilities may make it not worthwhile to do so (Doralt, Hellgardt, Hopt, Leyens, Roth, and Zimmermann 2008; Napier 1998). Even if there is a supply, unlimited liability may still inhibit the development of auditing.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Currently, in the United States, Europe, and other jurisdictions, there is an intense public policy debate on placing caps on the liability of auditors in civil lawsuits. On the one hand, there is a concern that no one will supply audits because the large potential liabilities may make it not worthwhile to do so (Doralt, Hellgardt, Hopt, Leyens, Roth, and Zimmermann 2008; Napier 1998). Even if there is a supply, unlimited liability may still inhibit the development of auditing.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…118 Die Stiftungen zur Versorgung von Personen, die dem Stifter nahestehen, was typischerweise Familienmitglieder sein dürften, werden also zeitlich limitiert. Dadurch beugt man einer dem Fideikommiss ähnlichen "unerwünschte[n]" 119 Versteinerung von Vermögen vor.120 Eine Aufsicht für Privatstiftungen, wie dies bei Stiftungen, welche nach dem österreichischen BStFG und den entsprechenden landesrechtlichen Regelungen vorgesehen ist und wie sie nach den deutschen Landesstiftungsgesetzen besteht, sieht die österreichische Rechtsordnung nicht vor 121. Entsprechend sind auch öffentlich-rechtliche Regelungen, welche in Deutschland zum Teil ein Freiwerden der Familienstiftung von der staatlichen Aufsicht bewirken,122 nicht vorhanden.…”
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