Numerous (high-tax) countries presume that multinational firms use their transferpricing policies to shift profits into countries with lower tax rates. To avoid the corresponding loss in tax revenues, tax authorities develop constantly tightening rules to curb transfer-price distortions....

Im Referentenentwurf zum BilMoG wird die Untergrenze der Herstellungskosten neu gefasst, in die neben den Einzelkosten nun auch die variablen Gemeinkosten einzubeziehen sind. Der Beitrag klärt zunächst, wie variable Gemeinkosten aus Sicht der Kostenrechnung zu ermitteln sind. Anschließend...

The use of information plays an important role in the choice of transfer prices (TP). We discuss the information provision of two centralized mechanisms, namely, actual-cost and standard-cost based TP. Actual cost based TP use all available cost information whereas standard cost based TP only...

Da kostenbasierten Verrechnungspreisen in der betrieblichen Praxis eine besondere Bedeutung zukommt, untersucht dieser Beitrag, welche Investitions- und Handelsanreize durch istkosten- und standartkostenbasierte Verrechnugspreise gesetzt werden, wenn die Unternehmensbereiche Kreuzinvestitionen...

In July 2001 the 70-year-old German Rabattgesetz that prevented negotiations in retail business has been abolished. During the abolition process consumer- as well as retailer pressure groups claimed that significant damages for their clients were to be expected. Using game theoretic modelling...

The information quality of mandatory financial reporting depends on two factors: (1) Are standards appropriate to produce financial statements that provide investors with sufficient information? (2) Is compliance to standards enforced by appropriate institutions? This paper addresses the...

Any cooperation that profits from relation-specific investments suffers from the well-known hold-up problem. If investments are not enforceable by an outside authority, the gains fall prey to individual opportunism caused by a free-rider problem. If, in addition, individual investments exhibit...

Having a child out of wedlock used to be associated with shame and scorn. This is mostly not the case anymore in the western world. Therefore, freed from social sanctions, single motherhood has become an additional family-choice alternative for women, along with marriage and childlessness. Yet,...