This paper describes a simple way to integrate the debt tax shield into an accounting-based valuation model. The market value of equity is determined by forecasting residual operating income, which is calculated by charging operating income for the operating assets at a required return that...

Seit der Jahrtausendwende wird in Deutschland die im internationalen Vergleich schwache Investitionsentwicklung beklagt. Allerdings wird in der Diskussion häufig nur die nominale Investitionsquote betrachtet, d.h. der Anteil der nominalen Investitionen am nominalen Bruttoinlandsprodukt. Hierin...

Drawing on the modern literature on the monetary transmission mechanisms with capital market imperfections, this paper presents a model of the "credit-cost channel" of monetary policy. The thrust of the model is that firms' reliance on bank loans ("credit channel") may make aggregate supply...

This study investigates the relationship of the intellectual capital of a company (proxied by its intangible assets), with leverage and equity and capital structure. Our empirical results indicate that there is a negative relation between the intellectual capital (intangible assets) of a company...

Mismeasurement of intangible assets in a company may result in high costs and loss of its competitiveness and position in the market. Conventional evaluation methods are not able to identify reliably intangible intensive business value because of such assets specificity. Therefore, the business...

Intangible resources management is a relevant issue in Marketing and Management perspectives because these resources provide companies with competitive advantages (Caves, 1996; Srivastava, Fahey and Christensen, 2001). Intangible resources management is considered a strategic key question in...

The aim of this paper was to analyze the contribution of intangible assets in the value creation of companies, using the methodology proposed by Gu and Lev, 2003, Gu and Lev, 2011. The database used was collected in Datastream with information covering the period from 2001 to 2010. The main...

Innovations are an important, although imprecise conceptual category. They are perceived differently depending on the accepted scientific perspective. The article verifies the concept of innovation in terms of marketing and accounting. The main aim of the paper is to identify problems and...