In this paper we evaluate an indivisible investment project that is carried out in a corporation under very simple premises. In particular, we discuss a one-period model with certainty, the pure domestic case and proportional tax rates. Surprisingly, the decision problem turns out to be rather...

In this paper we evaluate an indivisible investment project that is carried out in a corporation under very simple premises. In particular, we discuss a one period model with certainty, the pure domestic case and proportional tax rates. Surprisingly, the decision problem turns out to be rather...

We generalize the classical concept of a certainty equivalent to a model where an investor can trade on a capital market with several future trading dates. We show that if a riskless asset is traded and the investor has a CARA utility then our generalized certainty equivalent can be evaluated...

In this paper we consider firms having pension and other non-tradeable liabilities and we ask whether the methods of discounted cash flow (DCF) can be used for evaluation of the company. This question was so far not discussed in the literature systematically. We show how balance sheet are to be...

For the valuation of a company it is necessary to take the in come tax of its owners into account. When looking at a squeeze-out with investors who have different wealth this implies that fair compensation payments will be different. This is in contradiction to the German Stock Companies Act. In...