This paper examines the impact of capital gains taxation on firms’ investment and financing decisions. We develop a real options model in which the timing of investment, the decision to default, and the firm’s capital structure are endogenouslyand jointly determined. Our analysis shows that...

This paper sheds light on the influence of exchange rate volatility on foreign direct investment (FDI), both at the theoretical and the empirical level. The novelty of the empirical analysis, which is based on a panel of 27 OECD countries over the period 1982-2002, is to provide evidence of a...

This paper examines the characteristics of firms that voluntarily provide interim financial reports. Based on a sample of Swiss companies, where semi-annual reports became mandatory in 1997, I document that before interim reports became mandatory, analyst coverage, i.e. analysts demand for...

Verfolgt man die internationale Wirtschaftspresse im ersten Quartal des Jahres 2000, rund zweieinhalb Jahre nach dem Ausbruch der Finanzkrise in neun aufstrebenden Ländern Südostasiens, so häufen sich die Schalmeienklänge über eine rasche Erholung dieser Länder und über die Rückkehr des...