The valuation of firms is one of the topics that valuation theorists and practitioners have addressed since the early stages of economic sciences. Firm valuations are regularly conducted using discounted cash flow (DCF) models in which expected future cash flows are discounted at...

The purpose of this dissertation thesis is to investigate how changes in the institutional setting have affected the payout policy of German firms. This dissertation thesis further contributes to the literature on event study methodology by analyzing the measurment of abnormal credit default...