This paper provides a theory and firm-level evidence on the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs in a model of taxes and corporate governance. The theory explains how the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs is driven by taxation (corporate and personal income taxes), corporate...

We model the impact of public and private ownership structures on firms' incentives to invest in innovative projects. We show that it is optimal to go public when exploiting existing ideas and optimal to go private when exploring new ideas. This result derives from the fact that private firms...

The ultimate goal of this study is to assess the role of intensive stock market listing of sports clubs as a source of funding. Precisely, it focuses on the effect of changing of the legal form of the clubs to a company. The sample covers the period of the sporting season form 2004-2005 to...

Die Wirtschaft ist in zunehmendem Maße durch Umstrukturierungen von Unternehmen geprägt. Die Prozesse und die daraus folgenden Konzernstrukturen werden (auch) durch steuerliche Überlegungen beeinflusst. Der Einfluss des Steuerrechts reicht dabei über die Wahl der Unternehmens-Rechtsform...