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Why do companies issue convertible bond loans? An empirical analysis for the Canadian market

To identify issuer motives, we study the determinants of announcement effects of convertible debt issues in the Canadian market. Classified into equity‐ and debt‐like, wealth effects are significantly more negative for equity‐like convertible bond issuers. Equity‐like convertibles are significantly negatively affected by agency costs of equity. However, agency costs of debt have no significant effect on debt‐like convertibles. Consistent with Stein (1992), this suggests convertibles in particular represent a substitute for equity. Moreover, convertible debt offers announced by income trusts experience significantly less negative wealth effects than offers by nontrusts—a finding explained by a more debt‐like convertible design, very low agency costs of equity in case of income trusts, or both. Copyright © 2008 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Eine differenzierte Darstellung der Kostenstelle Pflege bei stationären Altenhilfeeinrichtungen

Heilberufe - Die Kostenstelle Pflege in der stationären Altenhilfe umfasst die Leistungen „Grundpflege“, „Medizinische Behandlungspflege“, „Soziale...     

Protestantism, Labor Force Participation, and Employment Across Countries

A bstract .   Using data from 80 countries, this article analyzes whether Protestant religion affects labor market outcomes. Controlling for the impact of labor market regulations, business regulations, the tax burden, the business cycle, the level of economic development, demographic and geographical conditions, wars, and the transition from planned to market economy as well as unobserved country and year effects, we find that countries in which the largest portion of the population practices Protestant religion have substantially higher labor force participation and employment rates, particularly among women. We obtain the same result for a subgroup of 19 industrial countries for which we have better data to control for the impact of labor market institutions and business cycle fluctuations.     

German income tax reform. A simulation model

An independent commission on tax reforms and the Federal Ministry of Finance had been working for some time on basic changes of the German tax system. Their suggestions recently have been published (Bericht, 1971) just as many other proposals for tax reform from various experts, organizations, and political parties. Yet, compared with the Report (1966) of the Royal Commission on Taxation of Canada (Carter Commission) the German reform plans are less comprehensive and fundamental than the thorough economic analysis in the six volumes of the Carter Report.     

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