We are interested in the effect of capital income taxes upon security prices when investors face locally segmented stock markets and a global bond market. Therefore, we analyze an equilibrium model of an economy with binomial uncertainty, an exogenous risk-free interest rate and a representative...

The tax shield as present value of debt-related tax savings plays an important role in firm valuation. Driving the risk of future debt levels, the firm's strategy to adjust the absolute debt level to future changes of the firm value, labeled as (re-) financing policy, affects the value of tax...

Using a data set of German stocks that includes the financial crisis, this paper identifies market liquidity as the main driver of return seasonality. In comparison, the economic significance of order flow imbalance is markedly weaker. Applying panel regressions and controlling for unobserved...

Abstract Der drastische Rückgang der Eigenkapitalausstattung (genauer: der Eigenkapitalquote) bundesdeutscher Unternehmen bis Mitte der 80er Jahre hat breite wissenschaftliche Diskussionen ausgelöst. Insbesondere wurde versucht, zwischen diesem empirischen Phänomen und demjenigen des...

Costs of Financial Distress: The German Evidence In this paper we aim to verify the existence of costs of financial distress (cfd) for a sample of German CDAX firms using an ex-post approach originally due to Opler/Titman (1994). In contrast to this US-based study we do not find a significant...

Dieser Beitrag analysiert den Wertbeitrag fremdfinanzierungsbedingter Steuervorteile (Tax Shield)unter realistischen Bedingungen (keine Negativsteuer; mögliche Insolvenz) für unterschiedlicheFinanzierungspolitiken. Zusätzlich wird der Effekt der sogenannten Zinsschranke auf den Wert desTax...