Capital Structure

Philipp Immenkötter

Essays on Capital Structure Decisions:

Financial Flexibility, the Business Cycle, 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 […]

Markus Hang

Firm Value Effects of Capital Structure and Corporate Hedging Decisions

Empirical Evidence from Meta-Analyses and Electric Utility Firms

Finanzmanagement

Im Zentrum dieser Untersuchung stehen die Beziehungen zwischen Kapitalstruktur-Entscheidungen, Hedging-Entscheidungen und Unternehmenswert.

Obwohl die empirische Literatur im Bereich Corporate Finance rapide wächst, im Besonderen in der Forschung zur Kapitalstruktur und zum Hedging – was zu den zentralsten Themen der Corporate […]

Helmut Wasserbacher

Causal Inference and Causal Machine Learning for Data-Driven Management

Applications in Corporate Finance and Marketing

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

The availability of large amounts of data, coupled with artificial intelligence and machine learning as suitable techniques to exploit them, has led to increasing interest in data-driven management. Data are turned into insights, and insights into management decisions.

In the midst of this passion for artificial intelligence, […]

Rüdiger Stucke

Financial Engineering and Structuring in Leveraged Buyouts

Finanzmanagement

In a Leveraged Buyout, a Private Equity investor finances the purchase price of a company to a substantial fraction with debt in addition to the equity contribution out of his fund and from the participating management. The rationale for this financing structure is the substitution of equity, as an expensive source of capital, with comparably […]