Kapitalmarktheoretische Beta-Erklärungsansätze -- Verfahren zur Ermittlung des Betafaktors bei nicht börsennotierten Unternehmen(steilen) -- Zusammenhänge fundamentaler Kennzahlen und Beta -- Panelanalytisches Beta-Zusammenhangs- und Prognosemodell -- Multifaktor Beta-Modelle.

The paper empirically investigates credit access and borrowing costs in Poland's rural financial market. We conduct an econometric analysis based on cross-sectional survey data including formal loans taken in the period 1997-1999. A hedonic regression of the effective interest rate, comprising...

We develop a formula for user costs of housing on the basis of a neoclassical approach to housing investment which does not impose a perfect capital market assumption. We suggest that the definition for the user costs of housing should be extended by an additional term which mirrors the credit...

Using a firm-level panel data set I assess whether dynamic models of investment provide an empirically fruitful framework for analyzing tax effects on changes in capital stock. In particular I estimate a one-step error correction model (ECM) complementing the usual estimation of a distributed...