The value of corporate equity in Japan is dramatically smaller than that implied by the sum of the reproduction cost of accumulated investment and the market value of land owned by corporations (that is, the Tobin's average 'q' is much smaller than unity). This discrepancy appears to result from...

Im Zuge der wirtschaftlichen Globalisierung und einem damit verbundenen Wettbewerb der Nationalstaaten um mobile Produktionsfaktoren, d.h. insbesondere Kapital, kommt der Wachstumseffizienz der nationalen Ausgestaltung der Unternehmensbesteuerung eine wachsende wirtschaftspolitische Bedeutung...

In this paper there has been made a comparison between the amortisation and the impairment methods for accounting for goodwill, with regards to their associated effects on accounting quality. Based on two qualitative characteristics of accounting information, as formulated by the International...