The terminal value generally reflects a substantial portion of a firm's market value. Stable growth models are usually used to estimate terminal values. We use a simple model of a firm to derive a valuation function for the terminal value in the presence of inflation. Our model reveals that...

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 interaction between high leverage and distress for...

This note draws on an important paper in venture capital financing theory. BERGLOuml;F (1994) stressed the important role of exit control and incorporated that issue in a model for optimal venture capital contract design. One major result of this work is that convertible debt strictly dominates...

In his recent article quot;Valuation with or without personal income taxesquot; Richter analyzes the impact of introducing income taxes into the calculus of corporate valuation. His major result is that, if correctly specifying the model, the income tax rate is only of minor importance for...

Based on an example Loffler claims in his recent paper quot;Miles-Ezzell's WACC Approach Yields Arbitragequot;, that the application of the Miles/Ezzell-WACC may offer arbitrage opportunities. He concludes that the Miles/Ezzell-WACC is not applicable without restrictions. We discuss the example...

Cash holdings obviously play an important role in financial management of corporations: the largest firms in the world held 1.5 trillion USD in cash and marketable securities in 1998. Finance theory however has not dealt with this subject in detail until the mid 90's. Especially concerning the...

In a recent contribution Jorg Wiese discusses the problem of how to adopt a version of the single-period Tax-CAPM of Brennan (1970) for multiperiod valuation problems. With this short note, we would like to demonstrate the following problems of Wiese's analysis:(1) the valuation calculus...

We study the certification role of fairness opinions in corporate transactions in a simple non-cooperative setting with asymmetric information and possibly misaligned managerial incentives, and discuss the effect of different regulatory scenarios. Specifically, we compare three settings: one in...

Based on an example Loeffler claims in a recent FINANZ BETRIEB-article that the application of the Miles/Ezzell-WACC may offer arbitrage opportunities. He concludes that the Miles/Ezzell-WACC is not applicable without restrictions. We discuss the example of Louml;ffler and show that either (a)...