Tanja Spennlingwimmer untersucht in diesem Buch das Beteiligungsmanagement und -controlling öffentlicher Unternehmen und deren Beteiligungen unter Berücksichtigung des Bundes Public Corporate Governance Kodex (B-PCGK). Weitere Aspekte stellen der Vergleich zum deutschen Kodex, die Analyse von...

A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We show that the permanent income hypothesis prescription...

Using an agency model of firm behavior, the paper analyzes whether the cost of investment should be tax exempt. The findings suggest that, when managers engage in wasteful capital expenditures, welfare may decline if the cost of investment is tax deductible, as commonly advocated. The extent to...

We analyze how interactions between corporate taxation and corporate governance affect shareholder capital. Using a model with strategic interaction between managers and outside shareholders, we hypothesize that, while an increase in the corporate tax rate decreases shareholder capital, an...

We derive determinants of tax avoidance by means of a multi-task principal-agent model. We extend prevailing models by integrating both corporate and individual income taxation as well as by including tax planning effort in the agent’s action portfolio. Our model shows novel and apparently...

This paper proposes a theoretical model that incorporates corporate governance into the basic CAPM, where corporate governance affects the disutility of managerial effort and the possibility of managers to divert company resources. It shows that corporate governance affects firms’ stock...

Charakteristisch für Emerging Markets sind hohe Aktienrenditen und eine geringe Korrelation mit den Aktienrenditen der entwickelten Märkte, so dass durch Diversifikation der Investmentanlagen eine Verringerung des Portfoliorisikos erreicht werden kann. Die zunehmende Integration...