Angelika Merdian sichtet und analysiert vor dem Hintergrund diverser Vereinheitlichungsbestrebungen die Standards für Wirtschaftsprüfer in ihrer Tätigkeit als Unternehmensbewerter in Deutschland, Österreich, Frankreich, Italien, dem Vereinigten Königreich und Russland. Darüber hinaus...

Marius Grathwohl stellt die Entwicklung von Industriestandards durch Unternehmen und Konsortien als profitable Unternehmensstrategie vor. Er will Entscheidungsträger vor diesem Hintergrund für spezifische kartellrechtliche Konfliktpotenziale sensibilisieren und Compliance-Hinweise zur...

What are the macroeconomic consequences of changing aggregate lending standards in residential mortgage markets, as measured by loan-to-value (LTV) ratios? In a structural VAR, GDP and business investment increase following an expansionary LTV shock. Residential investment, by contrast, falls, a...

Recent contributions have questioned whether biofuels policies actually lead to emissions reductions, and thus lower climate costs. In this paper we make two contributions to the literature. First, we study the market effects of a renewable fuel standard. Opposed to most previous studies we...

1 Overview (Kunio Ito). Part 1 Earnings Attributes and Corporate Behavior -- 2 What do Smoothed Earnings Tell Us about the Future? (Yusuke Takasu and Makoto Nakano) -- 3 The Effect of Accounting Conservatism on Corporate Investment Behavior (Souhei Ishida and Kunio Ito) -- 4 Matching expenses...

This paper reviews the U.S. welfare reform efforts over the 1990s and the effects of these reforms to date. Seven lessons of potential interest to European observers are discussed, with particular attention to the conclusions of more recent research. Such research indicates, for example, that...