The Supreme Court recently held that in reverse-payment settlements of drug patent disputes, anticompetitive effects can be inferred if the reverse payment exceeds the patent holder's anticipated litigation costs, absent some offsetting justification. Application of this standard is problematic...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the liberalization of Taiwan's capital market regarding cross-Taiwan-Strait listing of securities. Taiwan is in an advantageous position to compete with other Asian rivals to attract issuers and capital from China. However, the long political hostility...

Part I: The Concept of Value, Existence of a Firm, and The Objective Value Maximization -- AN OVERVIEW OF CORPORATE VALUATION -- CORPORATE VALUE CREATION -- TIME VALUE OF MONEY -- SECURITY MARKETS -- Part II: Financial Information as a Source of Valuation Inputs -- OVERVIEW OF FINANCIAL...

Der Einfluss der Rechnungslegung auf den Kapitalmarkt wir mittels verschiedener Ansätze empirisch untersucht. Insbesondere die Auswirkungen der Übernahme internationaler Rechnungslegungsstandards ist in den vergangenen Jahren in den Mittelpunkt der Forschung gerückt....

In this paper, we assess the equity value relevance of disclosure-derived financial statement adjustments. Prior literature has explored only the incremental explanatory power of individual adjustments, or has assessed the superiority of earnings recast using only a subset of prescribed...