The pace of innovation in financial instruments has been enormous over the last two dec-ades, but only a few of them have survived. Several papers deal with the valuation of existing financialproducts. In contrast, our approach tries to explain the use of certain financial innovations by...

As in Breuer/Hartmann/Kleefisch (2003) this approach tries to explain the use of certainfinancial innovations by their fulfillment of different corporate financing functions. In contrast, wedissect equity instead of debt innovations. First, we identify numerous basic components of...