The traditional literature on the CAPM assumes that investor's tax payments simply vanish from themodel. This assumption is not at all consistent with the actual behavior of the Treasury. The theoryof general equilibrium states that an interest rate rf = 0 will not affect prices if taxes are...

We evaluate the profitability of investments in residential property in Germany after unification with a focus on the comparison of East and West Germany. Calculations are carried out for (1) the after-tax return an investor might have expected at the beginning of the 1990s, and (2) the...

This contribution addresses the substantial tax privilege for businesses introduced by the German InheritanceTax Act 2009. Advocates of the vast or even entire tax exemption for businesses stress the potentialdamage of the inheritance tax on businesses, as those often lack liquidity to meet tax...

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