Relying on an unbalanced panel of 25,211 observations of Polish unlisted companies for the period 2005-2018, we employ panel data analysis to investigate the role of the capital maintenance principle in securing creditors' interests. We document a persistently higher level of indebtedness among...

A short paper interrogating the exceptions to the capital maintenance doctrine in Caribbean regional statutory Company law and its correlation with the modern corporate reality of equity investment through the share buy-back maneuverer

The adequacy of retirement savings is central to the U.S. debate over the effects of Social Security reform and pension changes that would place greater responsibility on individuals for accumulation of retirement resources. We contribute to this discussion by examining the extent to which...

In this paper we aim to shed light on the global trend in rising corporate saving over the last three decades and to discuss the effects that the Covid-19 crisis might have on companies' saving behaviour. To do so, we analyse the transition of the corporate sector from traditionally being a net...

The measurement of profit depends on the concepts of capital maintenance used by the company in preparing its financial statements. The IASB Framework offers the option of choosing between two concepts of capital maintenance: financial capital and physical capital. This study highlights the...

The present research aims to propose a new approach to defining and measuring assets in terms of the negative effects and net benefits arising from their use and affecting the natural capital. In this regard, we provide a new definition and a reclassification of assets in three categories,...

This paper provides an overview for understanding the concept of capital maintenance and its relation to measurement. While there is extensive prior literature on this issue the focus of this literature is to provide a taxonomy of various methods of inflation accounting. This paper summarises...

The subject of this article is the regulation of capital maintenance in the European Private Company (SPE) proposed in the European Union. The primary reference for the article is the Proposal for a Council Regulation on the Statute for a European Private Company (COM (2008) 396) and its chapter...

We develop a stochastic general equilibrium model in which maintenance endogenously affects the capital depreciation rate. The model performs well in generating maintenance series that match closely existing survey-based measures for Canada. Maintenance is procyclical and comoves almost always...

Accounting-based profit distribution restrictions have been a key issue of the EU's company law harmonisation efforts. At present, the concept of creditor protection via the maintenance of a minimum level of nominal capital is challenged in several respects: (i) With its recent rulings, the...

We study an optimal growth model with one-hoss-shay vintage capital, where labor resources can be allocated freely either to production, technology adoption or capital maintenance. Technological progress is partly embodied. Adoption labor increases the level of embodied technical progress....

Das in der EU für Aktiengesellschaften kodifizierte Kapitalschutzsystem ist unter Rechtfertigungsdruck geraten und steht vor tiefgreifenden Veränderungen. Es sieht bisher neben der Aufbringung eines Mindestkapitals vielfältige Kapitalaufbringungs- und Kapitalerhaltungsregeln vor, die auf vom...

Interest rate risk, i.e. the risk of changes in the interest rate term structure, is of high relevance in insurers' risk management. Due to large capital investments in interest rate sensitive assets such as bonds, interest rate risk plays a considerable role for deriving the solvency capital...

The adequacy of retirement savings is central to the U.S. debate over the effects of Social Security reform and pension changes that would place greater responsibility on individuals for accumulation of retirement resources. We contribute to this discussion by examining the extent to which...