Im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit stehen die Auswirkungen steuerlicher Abschreibungen und investitionsfördernder Massnahmen auf die intersektorale und internationale Kapitalallokation. Der Autor analysiert sowohl bestehende steuerliche Vorschriften als auch Reformvorschläge (z.B....

This paper uses firm-level data to document and analyze international bond issuance by Chinese non-financial corporations and the use of the proceeds of issuance. We find that dollar issuance is positively correlated with the differential between domestic and foreign interest rates. This...

Ausgehend von einer allgemeinen Übersicht des US-amerikanischen Steuerrechts in Bezug auf Finanzierungen ist die steuerliche Abgrenzung zwischen Eigen- und Fremdkapital bei hybriden Finanzierungsinstrumenten in den Vereinigten Staaten zentrales Thema der Arbeit. Zusätzlich wird eine...

We use a unique design feature of a survey of Italian firms to study the causal effect of inflation expectations on firms' economic decisions. In the survey, a randomly chosen subset of firms is repeatedly treated with information about recent inflation (or the European Central Bank's inflation...

In this study we analyse the development of business investments in Finland and in other countries of comparison on the basis of national accounts, survey data and a sector-level general equilibrium model. According to the results, the decline in investments in Finland is mainly explained by two...

Existing theories of a firm's optimal capital structure seem to fail in explaining why many healthy and profitable firms rely heavily on equity financing, even though benefits associated with debt (like tax shields) appear to be high and the bankruptcy risk low. This holds in particular for...

Existing theories of a firm's optimal capital structure seem to fail in explaining why many healthy and profitable firms rely heavily on equity financing, even though benefits associated with debt (like tax shields) appear to be high and the bankruptcy risk low. This holds in particular for...

This paper develops a tractable human capital model with limited enforceability of contracts. The model economy is populated by a large number of long-lived, risk-averse households with homothetic preferences who can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Households have...