Attempting to satisfy their political masters in a target-driven culture, Soviet managers had to optimize on many margins simultaneously. One of these was the margin of truthfulness. False accounting for the value of production appears to have been widespread in some branches of the economy and...

Im Rahmen des Shareholder-Value-Konzepts soll durch erfolgsabhängige Entlohnungsverträge sichergestellt werden, dass Führungskräfte ihre Handlungen und Entscheidungen trotz Informationsvorsprüngen und Interessendivergenzen am Ziel der Unternehmenswertsteigerung ausrichten. Als...

Residual income valuation is based on the assumption that the clean surplus relation holds. As pointed out by Ohlson (2000), among others, the standard clean surplus relation is frequently violated. Moreover, standard residual income valuation models rest on the implicit assumption that future...

We examine a static one-risk-free-one-risky asset portfolio choice when the investor’s wellbeing is affected by the anticipatory feelings associated to potential capital gains and losses. These feelings can be manipulated by the choice of subjective beliefs on the distribution of returns....