In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Bewertung von Unternehmen mit Pensionsrückstellungenbei einer einfachen Gewinnsteuer untersucht. Der Ansatz von Drukarczyk (1990) wird kritischhinterfragt. Es wird gezeigt, daß in diesem Modell eine Aussch¨uttungssperre (beispielsweisenach § 58 AktG) keine...

[...]This article examines how Japanese exporters areresponding to the conflicting objectives of maintainingstable profit margins and stable export sales when the valueof the yen fluctuates. We find that Japanese firms tend tostrike a balance between these goals. The firms’ foreigncustomers do...

I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak tosuch an eminent group at this important conference oncapital regulation.“If you see a banker jump out of the window,jump after him: there is sure to be profit in it,” said theeighteenth-century French philosopher Voltaire. Lookingat the...

All empirical models of earnings processes in the literature assume agood deal of homogeneity. In contrast to this we model earnings processesallowing for lots of heterogeneity between agents. We also introduce an ex-tension to the linear ARMA model that allows that the initial convergenceto the...

The Welsh economy has undergone rapid structural change in recent years.This paper uses data from the New Earnings Survey to examine how earnings in Waleschanged relative to those of Great Britain between 1975 and 1994. There are five mainfindings. First, earnings of workers in Wales have...

The Rise Of Britain’s Fiscal Naval StateIn outline (if not in the chronological detail required for a complete and satisfactory historical narrative) the reasons why the United Kingdom evolved between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the Congress of Vienna of 1815, into the most powerful...

This paper treats the problem of setting the inventory level of closed-loop owlines operating under the constant-work-in-process (CONWIP) protocol. We solve ahuge but simple linear program that models an entire simulation run of a closed-loopow line in discrete time to determine a production...

In entrepreneurial decisions making uncertain future prots often are a maincharacteristics of real investment opportunities. If investors can react touncertainty the degree of irreversibility and timing flexibility inherent in theavailable project should be integrated into the decision calculus....

IT fashions are IT innovations within a hyped phase. They are on the rise and claimed to be “the next big thing”. Investing in IT fashions bears potential for high returns in case the technology becomes institutionalized and first mover advantages can be realized. Contrary, it bears the risk...

Risk/return management has not only evolved as one of the key success factors for enterprisesespecially in the financial services industry, but is in the times of the economic crisis initiated by thefinancial markets crucial for the survival of a company. It demands powerful and at the same...