Classical single-factor comparable company valuation (CCV) like e.g. valuation using the price-earnings ratio is associated with several shortcomings. The two most important are the non-applicability of negative values in the basis of reference and the high requirements to the qualitative...

Reinvestment decisions are based on basic the economic literacy of entrepreneurs because they do not want to affect future liquidity or development activities. The main goal of the article is to suggest a simple decision tree model to describe profit reinvestments in a general way based on...

In diesem Aufsatz wird ein lagerhaltungstheoretischer Ansatz der Gründungsfinanzierung entwickelt. Die Parameter des Standardmodells der Lagertheorie lassen sich im Hinblick auf ein Gründungsfinanzierungsproblem uminterpretieren. Die Einstandspreise des externen Kapitals sind dabei...

Which strategies generate value in e-commerce environments? In a step towards answering this question, this paper estimates the impacts of several competitive strategies on the values of the well-known Internet retailer Amazon.com and three of its early competitors, BarnesandNoble.com, CDNOW,...

Dieser Beitrag formuliert Kalküle für Investitionsentscheidungen von Personenunternehmen unter Berücksichtigung der neu geschaffenen Option zur Begünstigung nicht entnommener Gewinne (§ 34a EStG n.F.). Im Kalkül unter Sicherheit besteht die optimale Alternativanlage immer in der abgeltend...

Managers would like to understand which strategies generate value in e-commerce environments, and researchers are just beginning to explore this issue. Which strategies are useful and which are not? In a step towards answering this question, we estimate the impacts of several competitive...

There is a planning gap for CCS projects in Europe. CCS demonstration plants are not implemented as expected. This fact is at odds with optimistic valuation reports that apply socio-economic valuation criteria for climate projects. However, CCS plants are in most cases to be implemented by...

Investment trajectories of new enterprises are a largely neglected but important issue of new firms' business behavior. This paper debuts in showing robust evidence of new venture investment time patterns by using investment time series of 4.733 new businesses. Based on a fixed effects nonlinear...

Firms in information and communication (ICT) sector are often considered as an important element of business innovation performance in the economy. This paper is focused on examining their share on innovation and total research and development (R&D) expenditure in selected European countries....