This paper examines the cross-sectional relation between leverage and future stock returns. Prior research documents a puzzling negative correlation. We show that it is largely caused by firms' use of internal financing when having significant off-balance-sheet operating assets due to...

This study investigates the effect of the error announcement risk on the demand for voluntary interim auditor reviews. Material changes in the German legal environment in 2007 introduced an enforcement system for semi-annual financial reports. The demand for voluntary semi-annual reviews...

Gegenstand dieses Beitrages ist die Darstellung der Besteuerungswirkungen insbesondere einer Cash-flow-Steuer und einer zinsbereinigten Einkommensteuer auf auf die Preisbildung bei zeit- und zustandsabhängigen Finanztiteln auf vollständigen Kapitalmärkten, auf denen die in den Marktpreisen...

Using asset prices I estimate the marginal value of capital in a dynamic stochastic economy under general assumptions about technology and preferences. The state-space measure of marginal q relies on the joint measurability of the value function, i.e. firm market value, and its underlying firm...

Prior research finds that when investors receive credible bad news about a firm, they revise their valuations of that firm downward. We examine a setting where investors receive bad news about a firm and revise their valuations of that firm upward. Specifically, we find that when activist...