In globally managed companies International Human Resource Management is more and more understood as coordination instrument, which uses finance oriented instruments as the International Remuneration Management System with stock option programs and the Berlin Human Capital Evaluation Model for...

This brief essay was written for a forthcoming book by Prof. Zenich Shisido, Enterprise Law: Contracts, Markets, and Laws in the US and Japan (Edward Elger). It summarizes recent scholarship on the influence of tax law on equity compensation in the United States. The essay finds there is little...

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of thin-capitalization rules in preventing debt finance by intercompany loans and explores their consequences for corporate decisions. A theoretical discussion emphasizes that limitations of the deduction of interest owed to foreign affiliates would not only...

Die öffentliche Debatte um den Solidaritätszuschlag nimmt gegenwärtig Fahrt auf. Am 9. August legte das Bundesfinanzministerium einen Gesetzesentwurf vor, der die Ergänzungsabgabe für gut 90% der Steuerzahler zurückführt. Dies soll durch die erhebliche Erhöhung der derzeit geltenden...