In the last years, Handelsblatt has published several rankings of business economists from German, Swiss and Austrian research institutions based on their journal publication output. These rankings have a strong influence on the academic profession. We scrutinize the Handelsblatt methodology by...

Nowadays, every textbook on corporate finance uses the WACC approach for valuatingtax savings on interest rates. This approach, going back to Miles and Ezzell (1980), stilllacks the restriction of a constant leverage ratio. In this paper it is shown how the WACC formula has to be modified for an...