We present the derivation of cost of capital under the assumption of risky tax shields discounted with the cost of levered equity. We show that the formulation is consistent and is derived from basic financial principles. This formulation is valid for finite cash flows and non growing...

El estudio realizado desde el semillero de investigación de tributaria SITUQ logra desarrollar el trabajo de investigación "Análisis comparativo de impuestos de carácter nacional del Derecho Tributario de Colombia y el Derecho Tributario de España", con el cual se conoce el marco histórico...

The problems that are seeing by paper is to examine to what extent accounting reports can provide us with the true picture of company performance and finds the way how to broaden accounting reports in order to incorporate other relevant information (News in TV, newspapers, education, moral...

I have designed a valuation method adjusted to the specific characteristics of Spanish professional soccer clubs under the hypothesis that clubs behave financially reasonably. I analyse the factors that define the context where soccer business takes place. I have built a conceptual model that...

We investigate the determinants of decentralization and performance measurement choices in multidivisional firms.We extend the research on the economics of organizational design choices by examining the impact of two important determinants of those choices, namely, subunit interdependencies and...

This study examines the level and structure of CEO compensation of 2,448 CEO’s from 1,622 firms spanning a range extending from 1997 through 2002. Based on agency and expectancy theories, this study tests the hypotheses that corporate diversification is associated with CEO compensation....

In the context of global economic crisis, the management of multinational organizations have undergone significant changes, becoming more sensitive at the strategic matters. In the managerial leadership multinationals are faced again with the eternal dilemma: choosing a foreign manager in the...

This study explores the influence of financial leverage and of management competence on firm performance using a sample of 102 listed firms in the Athens Stock Exchange. It is found that leverage contributes significantly to sales growth, stock returns, and profitability due to management...

While the h-Index and the g-Index (as the major indices for quantifying the academic performance of researchers) take into consideration the citation count of publications, some other important indicators of research output (i.e. the number of authors per paper, lead author, year of publication)...

Although there are many studies for quantifying the academic performance of researchers, such as measuring the scientific performance based on the number of publications, there are no studies about quantifying the collaboration activities of researchers. This study addresses this shortcoming by...