One of the important issues in the areas of international taxation, international technology transfer and foreign investment by the MNCs that has been drawing greater attention of tax authorities worldwide is the issue of transfer pricing i.e. the compensation paid for intra-group services to...

The prediction and consequences of banking crises continue to be a fab in academic and political discussions. Researchers attempt to describe the link between these crises and the real economy. In this paper, we present an object oriented model that attempts to establish the relation of the real...

The US Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) led to a drastic reduction in the corporate tax and improved the treatment of C corporations compared to S corporations. We study the differential effect of the TCJA on these types of corporations using key economic variables of US banks, such as the number of...

We investigate whether privatization, competitive forces, and hardening of budget constraints have yet begun to play efficiency-enhancing roles in Russia. The empirical work is based on information from a 1994 survey of privatized and state-owned Russian firms, together representing around 10...

We analyze the problem of soft budget constraints of enterprises financed by banks in transition economies and review the similarities and the differences in various models addressing that issue. We reconstruct these models as several variants of a basic sequential model of soft budget...

Das Bestehen am Markt wurde in der Vergangenheit zunehmend in Abhängigkeitvom Wachstum durch Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse im weitestenSinne gesehen. Selbst wenn Größe als das Ergebnis der Zusammenschlüsse alssolche nicht mehr das Ziel ist, wird das Nutzen von Synergieeffekten zur...

This paper investigates the effect at the bank and industry level of a 1996 tax law change allowing commercial banks to elect S-corporation status. By the end of 2007, roughly one in three commercial banks had either opted for or converted to the S-corporation form of organization. Our study...

Project Merlin – the agreement between the UK Government and some major banks – has started the move towards the reform of important banking issues in the UK. One of the reasons for opting for a non-binding agreement instead of hard law is the assumption that the banks may perceive high...

This paper investigates the effect at the bank and industry level of a 1996 tax law change allowing commercial banks to elect S-corporation status. By the end of 2007, roughly one in three commercial banks had either opted for or converted to the S-corporation form of organization. Our study...