This paper reports on the ownership and control structures of publicly listed firms in Turkey using data from 2001. While holding companies and non-financial firms are the most frequent owners at the direct level, families ultimately own more than 80 percent of all publicly listed firms in...

Bei der Bewertung von Unternehmen ist es üblich, die erwarteten Überschussverteilungen mit Kapitalkosten zu diskontieren, welche aus dem Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) abgeleitet werden. In diesem Zusammenhang hat Richter unter der Prämisse eines Binomialmodells für die Entwicklung der...

I study the optimal choice of investment projects in a continuous time moral hazard model with multitasking. While in the first best, projects are invariably chosen by the net present value (NPV) criterion, moral hazard introduces a cutoff for project execution which depends on both a project's...

Bei der Bewertung von Unternehmen ist es üblich, die erwarteten Überschussverteilungen mitKapitalkosten zu diskontieren, welche aus dem Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) abgeleitetwerden. In diesem Zusammenhang hat Richter unter der Prämisse eines Binomialmodellsfür die Entwicklung der...

This paper investigates the influence of a firm's financial status on the within-firm allocation of funds, reected in its plant-level investment and exit decisions.

The in°uence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that being an entrepreneur means making risky decisions in uncertain environments; hence more risk-averse individuals are less likely to...

Efficiency wage effects of profit sharing are combined with option values related to stochastic future pofit variations. These option effects occur if the workers' profit share is fixed by long-term contracts. The Pareto-improving optimal level of the sharing ratio is calculated for two...

Iktisat yazınında bireylerin belirsizlik altında karar alma davranışları çok uzun süredir incelenmektedir. Yazında standartlaşmış olan Beklenen Değer Teorisi gerçek yaşamı açıklayamadığı gerekçesiyle yoğun eleştirilere maruz kalmış, insan davranışlarıyla daha...

This paper considers a model of reference-dependent utility in which the individual makes a conscious choice of her reference point for future consumption. The model incorporates the combination of loss aversion and anticipatory utility as competing forces in the determination of the optimal...