Vergleichende Metaanalyse bestehender Erhebungen zur Eigenkapitalisierung deutscher Unternehmen unterschiedlicher Größenklassen -- Überblick kapitalstrukturtheoretischer Ansätze und Bewertung ihrer Erklärungskraft für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen -- Qualitative Untersuchung extremer...

This paper explores the fundamental factors that determine the financing decisions of Italian small-medium sized companies in the service sector. I develop a descriptive model of the choice between financing instruments, assuming that a company needing new finance may issue either equity or...

We propose a theory of asset prices that emphasizes heterogeneous information as the main element determining prices of different securities. Our main analytical innovation is in formulating a model of noisy information aggregation through asset prices, which is parsimonious and tractable, yet...

This paper applies some recent advances in corporate capital structure theory to the determination of optimal capital in banking. The effects of corporate and personal taxes, government regulation, the technology of producing deposit services and the costs of bankruptcy and agency problems are...

We propose a theory of asset prices that emphasizes heterogeneous information as the main element determining prices of different securities. Our main analytical innovation is in formulating a model of noisy information aggregation through asset prices, which is parsimonious and tractable, yet...