We present a model for P/L insurance companies based on Asset-Liability-Management (ALM). We show analytically for multivariate normal distributed assets and claims that an overall minimum of the required risk capital can be obtained by refining the firm's asset allocation when including a ruin...

When considering corporate taxes in a cost allocation context a trade‐off is generated for shareholders. On the one hand, accelerated depreciation increases the value of a project due to the depreciation tax shield. On the other hand, accelerated depreciation most likely does not induce robust...

This journal recently published a debate between professors Gunther Friedl and Bernhard Schwetzler (hereafter “F&S”), on the one hand, and professors Michael Bradley and Gregg Jarrell (“B&J”), on the other hand. B&J initiated the first round of the debate by criticizing the constant...

We show that the usage of risk adjusted performance measures (RAPM), such as the RORAC or the RARORAC, as decision criterion for real investment decisions might favor projects that do not maximize shareholder value for project selection of mutually exclusive projects. We find that RAPM based on...

This paper contrasts the decision-usefulness of prototype accounting regimes based on perfect accounting for value, i.e. ideal value accounting (IVA), and perfect matching of cost, i.e. ideal cost accounting (ICA). The regimes are analyzed in the context of a firm with overlapping capacity...

We employ residual income as performance measure in a regulatory context utilizing the relative replacement cost rule (Rogerson, 2008, 2011). We find, in line with Rogerson (2008, 2011), that overall welfare is maximized if the regulator is aware of the data required to parameterize the model....

Unbiased accounting is supposed to provide perfect economic information to decision makers. We identify three notions of unbiased accounting in the literature, promoting return-, cost-, or value-disclosure as guiding principle and evaluate them based on the criterion of informational...