Capital market imperfections cause a relevance of a project's contribution to the firm's total risk, e.g. because of costs of financial distress. Based on this observation Stulz (1999) argues that modern capital budgeting leads to an inappropriate assentment of the value of a project since only...

Compliance with prevailing accounting standards is induced if the expected disadvantage due to sanctions imposed if non-compliance is detected outweighs the advantage of non-compliant accounting choices.(...)

This paper deals with the long-run stock performance after initial public offerings (IPOs) in the German capital market with a larger sample than prior studies and alternative benchmarks (the equally and the value-weighted market portfolio, size portfolios and matching stocks).

This paper deals with optimal financial contracts which simultaneously provide payincentives and impose constraints on managerial control.

I present a simple model of an evolutionary financial market with heterogeneous agents, based on the concept of adaptive belief systems introduced by Brock and Hommes (1997a). Agents choose between different forecast rules based on past performance, resulting in an evolutionary dynamics across...

The paper studies the problem of maximizing the expected utility of terminal wealth in the framework of a general incomplete semimartingale model of a financial market. We show that the necessary and sufficient condition on a utility function for the validity of several key assertions of the...