Wissenschaftliche Literatur Business Cycle

Philipp Immenkötter

Essays on Capital Structure Decisions:

Financial Flexibility, the BusinessCycle, and Tax Benefits

Finanzmanagement

This book provides an extensive analysis of how companies choose the mix of debt and equity to finance their assets. In three distinct essays, the author presents novel empirical and theoretical explanations for the dispersion of debt ratios of US firms within the last four decades. The first essay shows the importance of financial flexibility in capital issuance decisions, while the second analyzes the impact of macroeconomic risk on optimal capital structure choice. In…

Georg Bestelmeyer

Equity Markets and the Real Economy

Finanzmanagement

The author analyzes the influence of investors’ macroeconomic expectations on the U.S. equity market by focusing on three central issues: First, “Do investors’ equity risk premia expectations depend on overall business conditions? Hereby, the importance of economic conditions for doubtlessly one of the most essential value drivers of stock markets is tackled. The knowledge of how strong the real economic situation influences equity risk premia expectations and thus the…

Miriam Breunsbach

Applications of Company Valuation Models

Empirical Evidence on Selected Topics

Finanzmanagement

“One of the most important problems of corporate finance is the valuation of proprietary equities” as stated by Preinreich (1936).

Determining the economic value of a company is indeed an important theoretical and practical issue. The estimation of the true value of a company is essential for stock market investors, either professional or private. Only if he valuates a company accurately, can he assess whether it is over- or undervalued and make profitable…

Nicolas Heinrichs

Firm Valuation

Consistent Financial Planning and Corporate Diversification

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

The accurate valuation of firms is an elementary practical and theoretical issue. The author demonstrates how standard equity valuation models can be extended by broadening the consistent financial planning approach to account for non-ideal valuation conditions. He investigates how these extended valuation models perform on a large data set of firms. His research further provides significant contributions on how the co-movement of firm fundamentals behaves across the…

Hans-Jürgen Erbeldinger

Der Transmissionsmechanismus im Rahmen monetärer RBC-Modelle

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Die Frage, wie und warum Geldpolitik die realen ökonomischen Aktivitäten berührt, ist eine der ältesten und gleichzeitig die fundamentalste monetärer Ökonomik. In der klassich-neoklassischen Sichtweise ist die strenge Neutralität des Geldes eines der zentralen Theoreme monetärer Ökonomik und, hierauf aufbauend, die klassische Dichotomie zwischen realer und monetärer Sphäre. Heute ist allgemein anerkannt, dass Geldpolitik zumindest kurzfristig die reale Sphäre beeinflusst,…