The traditional literature on the CAPM assumes that investor's tax payments simply vanish from themodel. This assumption is not at all consistent with the actual behavior of the Treasury. The theoryof general equilibrium states that an interest rate rf = 0 will not affect prices if taxes are...

Tax planners often choose debt over equity financing. As this has led to increased corporate debtfinancing, many countries have introduced thin capitalization rules to secure their tax revenues. In ageneral capital structure model we analyze if thin capitalization rules affect dividend and...

The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non-profithospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiencyof a panel (n = 1,046) of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit...