Spotlights Janette Rutterford, Abbey National Professor at the Open University Business School — responsible for producing a corporate finance MBA course and lists her other achievements in full. Chronicles the major part of the article as a question and answer piece involving discussion on...

Reprises an earlier view by Robert Eccles, that what is important is how a company is doing compared with current competitors and not its past. Deplores short‐termism and the USA's drive for improved quarterly earnings which can mean objectives financially are endangered by short‐term...

Familienunternehmen prägen als verbreitete Organisationsform Volkswirtschaften weltweit. Besonders in Deutschland entfalten familiengeprägte Unternehmen eine hohe wirtschaftliche Bedeutung. Diese bildet sich im deutschen Aktienmarkt durch einen traditionell hohen Anteil börsennotierter...

Dividend is an unresolved puzzle in corporate finance and present study attempted to resolve this puzzle by testing the impact of industry, firm, and firm year on dividend policy. The study applied the variance decomposition technique in order to investigate the variance in dividend payout...

Einleitung -- Definition der zentralen Terminologie -- Theorien und Modelle -- Operationalisierung der Forschungsfrage und der Hypothesen -- Methodik und Forschungsdesign -- Kernergebnisse aus dem Pretest -- Ergebnisse der Hauptstudie -- Die Auswirkungen von Covid-19 und weiteren Krisen --...

This paper studies the sensitivity of investment in apartment building maintenance to building debt levels. I use a novel data set combining housing code violations from forty-five U.S. cities with apartment financing information to show that highly leveraged buildings tend to be less well...