In der Literatur ist seit langem bekannt, wie man Ertragsteuern in die Unternehmensbewertung einzubeziehen hat. In dieser Arbeit klären wir, wie man ein Unternehmen bewertet, dessen Eigentümer eine Erbschaftund Schenkungsteuer zu leisten haben.

We look at the theory of arbitrage with taxation under certainty. The tax scale in our model is not linear. Under the premise that tax scale is convex, we analyze prices that do not exhibit arbitrage opportunities. It turns out that there are two kinds of arbitrage: unbounded as well as bounded...

A simple counterexample shows the the widely used WACC approach to value leverage firms developed by Miles and Ezzell can create an arbitrage opportunity. The only consequence to be drawn is that their WACC approach cannot be applied under the circumstances assumed by Miles and Ezzell.

In the last years, Handelsblatt has published several rankings of business economists from German, Swiss and Austrian research institutions based on their journal publication output. These rankings have a strong influence on the academic profession. We scrutinize the Handelsblatt methodology by...

We analyze a general business tax in an uncertain economy. Our tax system allows for a time-dependent tax rate and to this end we incorporate a generalized allowance for corporate equity (ACE). The generalized allowance is given by a fraction of the product of interest rate and book value of the...

In capital budgeting problems future cash-flows are discounted using the expected one period returns of the investment. In this paper we establish a theory that relates this approach to the assumption that markets are free of arbitrage. Our goal is to uncover implicit assumptions on the set of...

A simple counterexample shows that the WACC formula developed by Miles and Ezzell can be used to create an arbitrage opportunity. The only consequence to be drawn is that their WACC approach cannot be applied under the circumstances assumed by Miles and Ezzell. We show how the WACC theory has to...

In a typical LBO debt is reduced by a substantial part of the firm's cash flow. The object of the paper is to analyze whether the tax advantage of this debt transaction plan can be evaluated using the WACC or the APV method. It turns out that none of them is appropriate, and we will provide a...