In this paper we evaluate an indivisible investment project that is carried out in a corporation under very simple premises. In particular, we discuss a one-period model with certainty, the pure domestic case and proportional tax rates. Surprisingly, the decision problem turns out to be rather...

Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, ob und auf welcher Weise für Unternehmen mit Pensionsrückstellungen, Verbindlichkeiten aus Lieferungen und Leistungen und anderen Passivpositionen eine Bewertungstheorie in der Tradition des Discounted Cashflow angewendet werden...

For the valuation of a company it is necessary to take the income tax of its owners into account. When looking at a squeeze-out with investors who have different wealth this implies that fair compensation payments will be different. This is in contradiction to the German Stock Companies Act. In...

The traditional literature on the CAPM assumes that investor's tax payments simply vanish from the model. This assumption is not at all consistent with the actual behavior of the Treasury. The theory of general equilibrium states that an interest rate rf = 0 will not affect prices if taxes are...

Zuweilen wird die Meinung vertreten, dass es Investoren um jeden Preis vermeiden sollten, Steuern zu zahlen. Im Rahmen eines einfachen Portfoliomodells mit Steuern wird untersucht, ob Steuervermeidung tatsächlich auf μ-σ2-effiziente Lösungen führt. Für vier verschiedene Konzepte der...

This paper attempts to analytically determine the impact a tax shield (marginal tax rate) has on the value of a levered firm assuming that gains and losses are taxed differently. Previous research has done this by employing empirical methods and simulation studies. We are able to present...

We extend the WACC approach to a tax system having a firm income tax and a personal income tax of the investor as well. We use an artificial tax system incorporating most of the G-7 national tax codes as for example the classical or the imputation systems.