This paper presents clinically-based studies of two acquisitions that received very different stock market reactions at announcement one positive and one negative. Despite the differing market reactions, we find that ultimately neither acquisition created value overall. In exploring the reasons...

Grundlagen -- Modell zur akquisitionsbedingten Wertänderung von Akquisitionssubjekten -- Empirische Untersuchung -- Anwendung der Ergebnisse der empirischen Studie auf aktuelle Unternehmensakquisitionen -- Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse.

The present authors are interested to investigate any correlation between market condition (i.e., in terms of corporate valuation) and the principles of governance in corporate legal system . It was generally believed that the word governance used in corporate legal system, perhaps, is more of a...

This study examines the value relevance of fair-value-based pension information using data from German companies that have adopted IFRS or US-GAAP. German companies do not tradition-ally fund pension plans externally. They therefore report large net pension obligations on their balance sheets....

Over the past two decades the Ohlson Residual Income Model for equity valuation has drawn much attention concerning its advantages when compared to traditional models (DDM, FCFM). This paper attempts to empirically investigate the validity of the Ohlson Residual Income model using data from the...

In this paper we investigate the value relevance of accounting information for the Greek listed companies for the period 1995-2009. For our purpose we examine the way that two accounting variables, earnings and book value, affect the share price. According to our findings from the statistical...

Streszczenie Celem opracowania było przedstawienie problemów związanych z kształtowaniem struktury kapitałowej przedsiębiorstwa. Metody maksymalizacji wartości stosowane obecnie nie są spójne w kwestii optymalnej struktury kapitałowej. W zależności od wybranej metody i celu...

This paper studies the relation between firm value and a firm's growth options. We find strong empirical evidence that (average) Tobin's Q increases with firm-level volatility. The significance mainly comes from R&D firms, which have more growth options than non-R&D firms. By decomposing...