This model adds to the standard neoclassical model of business fluctuations by introducing a more realistic capital structure problem, where firms have to balance the tax benefits of debt with the costs of potential financial distress. Therefore, firms solve a dynamic problem with both an...

As early as 1934 Graham and Dodd conjectured that excess returns from value investment originate from a tendency of markets to converge towards fundamental values. This paper confirms their insights theoretically within the evolutionary finance model of Evstigneev, Hens, and Schenk-Hopp (2006)...

Der Beitrag diskutiert die Auswirkungen einer nicht-residualen Ausschüttungspolitik aufdie Modigliani/Miller-Anpassungsformeln in einer Welt differenzierter, Dividenden, Zinsenund Kursgewinne unterschiedlich behandelnder persönlicher Steuern. EntsprechendeEinflüsse auf den Zusammenhang...

This paper examines the profit testing of life insurance companies that issue participating policies, type B and type A universal life policies, and variable annuities with guaranteed minimum maturity and death benefits, when investment returns are stochastic and modeled by normal or variance...

This article tests the modell of Brander and lewis under ertrand and Cournot competition.

Empirical studies examining the financing decisions of the firm focus exclusively on publicly held firms, not family-controlled firms despite their economic importance. This study investigates the external financing behavior of family-controlled firms, using a comprehensive sample of 777 large...

This study examines how family firm characteristics affect capital structure decisions. In our analysis we disentangle the influence of three distinct components of a family firm: ownership, supervisory and management board activities by the founding family. Thereby, we use a unique panel...

This essay gives an overview of the special features of funding foreign subsidiaries. The central issue discussed ist the possibility of funding by equity capital or borrowed capital in the form of loans an trade accounts payable.