Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) Topic 842, which is effective since 2019, requires balance sheet recognition of operating lease obligations and right-of-use (ROU) assets. For many firms, the implementation of this standard resulted in a large increase in reported operating assets, thus...

Assessing the contribution of intangible investment to growth is a challenging and complex task for any country. However, it has become increasingly difficult to determine both the exact magnitude of economic performance and its composition in the case of the Irish economy. This is mainly due to...

The world economy operates around the production of value and the creation and protection of wealth. Firms and other actors use global value chains to make the most for the least cost, ideally also contributing to economic development. Firms and professionals use global wealth chains to create...

Die umlagefinanzierte gesetzliche Rentenversicherung kann angesichts der demografischen Entwicklung eine auskömmliche Versorgung im Alter bald nicht mehr sichern. Indem die Bürger:innen über eine kapitalgedeckte Alterssicherung am Unternehmensvermögen mittelbar beteiligt werden, könnte die...

Assessing the contribution of intangible investment to growth is a challenging and complex task for any country. However, it has become increasingly difficult to determine both the exact magnitude of economic performance and its composition in the case of the Irish economy. This is mainly due to...

This paper analyzes the role of liquidity constraints in the formation of new entrepreneurial enterprises. The basic empirical strategy is to determine whether an individual's wealth affects the probability of becoming an entrepreneur, and the conditional amounts of depreciable assets, ceteris...

Große Vermögen sind stärker betrieblich gebunden als dies amtliche Statistiken und Erhebungen ausweisen. Das geht aus einer Studie der Stiftung Familienunternehmen hervor, die vom Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW) erstellt worden ist. Die Forscher entwickelten einen Ansatz, um das...

Buchungsfälle sind immer nur dann schwierig, wenn sie selten vorkommen oder noch nicht vorgekommen sind. In der Neuauflage unseres Bestsellers "Schwierige Geschäftsvorfälle richtig buchen" zeigen Ihnen die Autor:innen nicht nur die Buchungen, sondern auch immer die Auswirkungen in der Bilanz...

Following renewed academic and policy interest in the destination-based principle for taxing profits—particularly through a destination-based cash flow tax (DBCFT)—this paper studies other forms of efficient destination-based taxes. Specifically, it analyzes the Destination-Based Allowance...

Im Rahmen der Erbschaftsteuerreform 2016 hat der Gesetzgeber umstrittene Steuerbegünstigungen für den Erwerb betrieblichen Vermögens nur leicht modifiziert und sogar neue Begünstigungen geschaffen. Die unerwünschten Konsequenzen dieser Politik, nämlich die erhebliche Ungleichbehandlung der...

For decades now wealth and power have been shifting from states to markets. This experiment has been a failure for all but a privileged few. But this trend is beginning to reverse, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen the state play the most direct and positive role in citizens'...

Following renewed academic and policy interest in the destination-based principle for taxing profits-particularly through a destination-based cash flow tax (DBCFT)-this paper studies other forms of efficient destination-based taxes. Specifically, it analyzes the Destination-Based Allowance for...

Following renewed academic and policy interest in the destination-based principle for taxing profits-particularly through a destination-based cash flow tax (DBCFT)-this paper studies other forms of efficient destination-based taxes. Specifically, it analyzes the Destination-Based Allowance for...

This paper investigates the driver of asset growth to explain the cross-country variation of the asset growth effect. We find that institutional restrictions on equity financing constrain firms' abilities to grow assets, and the degree of such restrictions is associated with the observed...

Chapter 1: Introduction of Fair Wealth -- Chapter 2: The Annual Theme of Fair Wealth -- Chapter 3: Results of Fair Wealth Evaluation -- Chapter 4: Analyses of Fair Wealth Evaluation Results -- Chapter 5: Other Projects of Fair Wealth -- Chapter 6: Fair Wealth Theory and Methodology -- Chapter 7:...

In Reaktion auf das Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom Dezember 2014 hat der Bundestag am 24.6.2016 ein reformiertes Erbschaft- und Schenkungssteuergesetz verabschiedet. Diesem hat der Bundesrat bislang nicht zugestimmt, weil mehrere Länder Mindereinnahmen befürchten. In der Tat würden...

We provide evidence concerning the use of historical cost (HCA) versus mark-to-market (MTM) accounting in regulating financial institutions. Accounting rules, through their interactions with capital regulations, alter financial institutions' trading behavior. The insurance industry provides a...

Slave property rights yielded a source of collateral as well as a coerced labor force. Using data from Dun and Bradstreet linked to the 1860 census and slave schedules in Maryland, we find that slaveowners were more likely to start businesses prior to the uncompensated 1864 emancipation, even...

Slave property rights yielded a source of collateral as well as a coerced labor force. Using data from Dun and Bradstreet linked to the 1860 census and slave schedules in Maryland, we find that slaveowners were more likely to start businesses prior to the uncompensated 1864 emancipation, even...

Grundlegung -- Determinanten der Identifikation von SBV -- Determinanten der steuerlichen Bewegungskonsequenzen von SBV -- Optimierung der steuerlichen Konsequenzen auf Dispositions- und SBV-Ebene -- Schlussbetrachtung.

Aufgrund des Urteils des Bundesverfassungsgerichts vom 17. Dezember 2014 muss das Erbschaft- und Schenkungsteuergesetz bis zum 30.6.2016 neu gefasst werden. Die FDP-Landtagsfraktion in Nordrhein-Westfalen befürchtet Nachteile für Familienunternehmen und setzt sich für eine möglichst...

We provide evidence concerning the use of historical cost (HCA) versus mark-to-market (MTM) accounting in regulating financial institutions. Accounting rules, through their interactions with capital regulations, alter financial institutions' trading behavior. The insurance industry provides a...