This article deals with the integration of taxes into real option-based investment models under risk neutrality and risk averison. It compares the possible approaches dynamic programming and contingent claims analysis to analyze their effects on the optimal investment rules before and after...

Microsimulation based on income tax statistics may be useful in tax reform discussions. Unfortunately, access to appropriate data is still rather restricted and expensive for ad-hoc analyses, or individual data is often even not available at all. In this paper we take Germany and its data...

Given the rising number, magnitude and harshness of tax disputes between firms and tax authorities, firms increasingly use controversy expertise as a remedy. This study investigates how two types of tax controversy expertise affect the resolution of tax disputes and compliance incentives. We...

Investitionsentscheidungen bei Unsicherheit schienen bisher von individuellen Risiko-Nutzen-Präferenzen abhängig zu sein. In jüngerer Zeit wurden die Erkenntnisse der Optionspreistheorie auf Realinvestitionen übertragen, um so eine präferenzfreie Beurteilung von Investitionsprojekten zu...

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

Besides the valuation methods commonly used for specific industries, taxpayers can fall back on the simplified discounted cash flow method which, in certain cases, obliterates the need for complex valuations and replaces what is known as the Stuttgart Method for valuing shares in unlisted...