Since 1993, the Ethiopian government has been using the urban land leasing system to monetize the increase in land value created due to factors other than private investment. Thus, this paper aims to explore and understand whether Bahir Dar city is leveraging the urban land lease system as a...

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the economy and their need to be financed remains one of the most discussed topics in the business world (World Bank, 2014; IFC, 2010). Financial leasing is a midterm financial instrument mainly used for the procurement of machinery,...

Our study addresses two issues overlooked in prior research: Does a firm’s future operating lease obligations influence its current cash holdings? Does this relationship contribute to the temporal increase in corporate cash holdings? We provide evidence that these future obligations...

Occupancy discount is a long-accepted doctrine in literature. Search theory supports such a proposition, but empirical evidence is mixed. This study revisits this dilemma and puts forward an alternative argument that a landlord may exploit sitting tenants who have made non-redeployable...

What incentives do managers face that might give rise to inefficient investments in leases? If managers make inefficient investments in leases, what economic consequences arise for those managers and their firms? We develop a model of expected investments in leased assets and use the residuals...

By analyzing a hand-collected transaction-level dataset on the finance leases of China’s public firms for the period 2007-2019, this paper sheds light on China’s financial leasing industry. We find that banks use their affiliated leasing firms to provide credit to constrained clients in...

Leasing's impact on leverage remains an open debate in the literature. Some argue that leasing and secured debt are substitutes, while others argue that leasing can preserve secured debt capacity and facilitate greater borrowing. I exploit a Moody's accounting policy change that unexpectedly...

We construct a two-period model of the supply chain's openness in a durable goods market by introducing two marketing modes: leasing and selling. Given a marketing mode, at the beginning of the first period, an incumbent supplier and the downstream monopolist choose one of the trading modes: (i)...

This policy letter provides evidence for the crucial importance of the initial regulatory treatment for the further development of financial innovations by exploring the emergence and initial legal framing of off-balance-sheet leasing in Germany. Due to a missing legal framework, lease contracts...

Der auf der Geschäftslage und den Geschäftserwartungen der Leasinggesellschaften basierende Investitionsindikator signalisiert für das Jahr 2019 einen Anstieg der Ausrüstungsinvestitionen von nominal 2,1%, nach einem Anstieg um 5,0% im Vorjahr. Für das kommende Jahr ist nochmals mit einem...

We investigate the economic and environmental implications of jointly implementing leasing and modularity, two prominent circular economy strategies, and their interaction. We develop a durable goods model to obtain insights for firms considering the use of these strategies. We first analyze the...

We study the relationship between a firm's leverage deviation from target debt ratio and its leasing intensity. We find a significant negative relationship between the deviation of leverage from target and leasing intensity, implying that firms actively use leasing as a source of financing when...

Should a monopolistic vendor adopt the selling model or the leasing model for information goods or services? We study this question in the context of consumer valuation depreciation. Using a two-period game-theoretic model, we consider two types of consumer-side valuation depreciation for...

Leasing companies play a vital role in developing micro, medium and small scale industries. Bajaj Finance Limited is a leasing company which also makes contribution to economic development. Hence, maintaining liquidity and solvency position is very important to Bajaj Finance Limited. With this...

Measuring the performance of the lease and higher purchase financing company or institution is very important to know the company's position in the aspect of profitability. In this paper, the researchers made an attempt to find out the profitability of the private lease company by particularly...

Leases are quite relevant to a large number of enterprises. Due to the fact that a lease reduces an entity's exposure to risks inherent in asset ownership, it is a widely used method of obtaining access to property, plant and equipment. At the beginning of this article sources of existence of...

This paper argues leasing is a risk-sharing mechanism: risk-tolerant lessors (capital owners) provide insurance to financially constrained risk-averse lessees (capital borrowers) against systematic capital price fluctuations. We provide strong empirical evidence to support this novel risk...

The problem of determining optimal rents in commercial real estate leases (as credit contracts, investments and as part of the supply chain) affects many companies in various industries such as retailing, healthcare, manufacturing, leasing, etc.. The advent of companies such as WeWork,...

Oil and gas leases between mineral owners and extraction firms ubiquitously include royalty and primary term clauses. The royalty denotes the share of revenue that is paid to the mineral owner, and the primary term specifies the date by which the firm must complete a well, lest it lose the...

Der Investitionsindikator signalisiert für das Jahr 2018 einen deutlichen Anstieg der Ausrüstungsinvestitionen von nominal 4,8%. Auch für das kommende Jahr ist mit Wachstum zu rechnen, wenn auch mit verminderter Dynamik.

Der Sammelband enthält gekürzte Fassungen von drei herausragenden Bachelor-Abschlussarbeiten, die im Jahr 2019 am Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Hochschule Düsseldorf eingereicht wurden. Obgleich durch die Bearbeitungszeit von 10 Wochen limitiert, enthalten die Arbeiten wertvolle...

Die neueste ifo Investitionsumfrage bei den deutschen Leasinggesellschaften zeigt, dass 2018 das Leasing insgesamt mit einem Zuwachs von nur 1,8% unterdurchschnittlich abgeschnitten hat. Das Neugeschäft mit Mobilien expandierte mit 1,5% auf 58,7 Mrd. Euro ungewöhnlich schwach, das...

We examine the real effects of lease capitalization rules (i.e., standards that require firms to capitalize finance leases) on corporate investment. We hypothesize that, in order to comply with these standards, managers collect, process, and disclose additional information, which leads them to...

This paper demonstrates a novel risk premium channel for firms' dynamic lease versus buy decision. In a typical operating lease contract, a less financially constrained lessor (capital owner) effectively provides an insurance mechanism to a more constrained lessee (capital borrower) against the...

I explore the effect of latent property characteristics on the estimation of the term structure of lease rates. Using data on Central London office leases, OLS specifications yield estimates of a significantly positive term structure, which is consistent with similar regressions documented in...

What factors enhance investment efficiency in leased assets, and what incentives give rise to over-investments? If firms over-invest in leases, what economic consequences arise? We develop a model of expected investment in leased assets, and use the residuals from the model as proxies for...

Prior studies debating the effects of changes to the minimum wage concentrate on impacts on household income and spending or employment. We extend this debate by examining the impact of changes to the minimum wage on expenses associated with shelter, a previously unexplored area. Increases in...

This case study serves as tool to make international financial reporting come alive. The case repositions financial accounting in the audience’s perception as a core part of modern corporate governance.

Der Sammelband enthält gekürzte Fassungen von drei herausragenden Bachelor-Abschlussarbeiten, die im Jahr 2019 am Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Hochschule Düsseldorf eingereicht wurden. Obgleich durch die Bearbeitungszeit von 10 Wochen limitiert, enthalten die Arbeiten wertvolle...

We extend Williamson's (1973, 1987) transaction economics research to leased assets to help explain why some assets are acquired by capital lease and the use of other assets is acquired by operating lease. We look for evidence that capital leases are used for higher asset specificity assets and...