Empirical evidence suggests that banks often engage in refinancing of intrinsically insolvent debtors instead of writing of their non-performing loans. Such forbearance lending may induce soft budget constraints for the debtors, as it diminishes their incentives to thwart default. This paper...

The appropriate way of quantifying how taxation of a firm's income and capital can distort its optimizing conditions is a recurring issue in the literature on optimal taxation. Exponential decay, although empirically contested, is almost ubiquitous. In the present paper a generalized framework...

Die Bestimmung planmäßiger Abschreibungen gewinnt gegenwärtig auf regulierten Märkten eine besondere Bedeutung, weil sich die Genehmigung von Preisen auch an den Kosten orientiert.(...)