We study the certification role of fairness opinions in corporate transactions in a simple non-cooperative setting with asymmetric information and possibly misaligned managerial incentives, and discuss the effect of different regulatory scenarios. Specifically, we compare three settings: one in...

We are interested in the effect of capital income taxes upon security prices when investors face locally segmented stock markets and a global bond market. Therefore, we analyze an equilibrium model of an economy with binomial uncertainty, an exogenous risk-free interest rate, and a...

In his recent article quot;Valuation with or without personal income taxesquot; Richter analyzes the impact of introducing income taxes into the calculus of corporate valuation. His major result is that, if correctly specifying the model, the income tax rate is only of minor importance for...

In a recent contribution Jorg Wiese discusses the problem of how to adopt a version of the single-period Tax-CAPM of Brennan (1970) for multiperiod valuation problems. With this short note, we would like to demonstrate the following problems of Wiese's analysis:(1) the valuation calculus...

The German corporate governance system changed substantially over the last ten years. Meanwhile, ownership structures of German firms changed significantly. We examine the phenomenon of changing ownership structures by studying blockholdings of German large caps between 1997 and 2006. We examine...

Based on an example Loeffler claims in a recent FINANZ BETRIEB-article that the application of the Miles/Ezzell-WACC may offer arbitrage opportunities. He concludes that the Miles/Ezzell-WACC is not applicable without restrictions. We discuss the example of Louml;ffler and show that either (a)...

We study the certification role of fairness opinions in corporate transactions in a simple non-cooperative setting with asymmetric information and possibly misaligned managerial incentives, and discuss the effect of different regulatory scenarios. Specifically, we compare three settings: one in...