This paper analyses optimal overhead allocation in a simple one-period setting with several divisions (production, sales or service departments). At the begin-ning of the period, headquarters has to decide on the procurement of a common input. The divisions possess private information on their...

This paper contains a critique of solvency regulation such as imposed on banks by Basel I and II. Banks investment divisions seek to maximize the expected rate of return on risk-adjusted capital. For them, a higher solvency level lowers the cost of refinancing but ties costly capital. Sequential...

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Kooperationen erfordern in der Praxis häufig (spezifische) Investitionen und sind daher mit dem Problem der "fairen" Aufteilung entstehender Kooperationsrenten behaftet. Der folgende Beitrag zeigt, dass die Kooperationspartner die Möglichkeit haben sollten, flexibel auf die Höhe ihrer...

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Purpose: This paper aims to draw on Adler and Borys’ (1996) concept of an enabling use of bureaucracy to examine how the integration of a single-book tax-compliant transfer pricing system into the management control system is related to the perceived success of that transfer pricing system....

This paper contains a critique of solvency regulation such as imposed on banks by Basel I and II. It argues that banks seeking to maximize rate of return on risk-adjusted capital (RORAC) aim at an optimal level of solvency because on the one hand, solvency S lowers the cost of refinancing; on...