Multinationale Unternehmen unterscheiden sich in vielen Aspekten grundlegendvon nationalen Unternehmen. Aus der simultanen Tätigkeit in verschiedenen Hoheitsgebieten mitunterschiedlichen Währungen, Wirtschafts- und Rechtordnungen resultieren charakteristische Kenn-zeichen multinationaler...

Taxes play an important role in determining the capital structure of companies. Consequently,a multinational company would choose its capital structure according to differencesin international taxation. Unlike purely national firms, multinationals can also use intercompanyloans to shift profits...

This paper analyzes the impact of taxes and lending conditions on the financial structure ofmultinationals' foreign affiliates. The empirical analysis employs a large panel of affiliates ofGerman multinationals in 26 countries in the period from 1996 until 2003. In accordance withthe theoretical...

We examine financial constraints and forms of finance used for investment, byanalysing survey data on 157 large privatised companies in Hungary and Poland for theperiod 1998 – 2000. The Bayesian analysis using Gibbs sampling is carried out toobtain inferences about the sample companies’...

This essay gives an overview of the special features of funding foreign subsidiaries. The central issue discussed ist the possibility of funding by equity capital or borrowed capital in the form of loans an trade accounts payable.