Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier untersucht die aktuelle Situation des Factoring in Deutschland .

Das Handwerk ist mit seinen vielen kleinen und mittleren Betrieben ein Kernstück der deutschen Wirtschaft. Ein wirtschaftlich gesundes Handwerk ist ein wichtiger Wirtschaftsfaktor für die Region. Dazu bedarf es jedoch eines ausreichenden Zugangs zu Finanzierungsinstrumenten. Das Handwerk ist...

Der Begrifff des internationalen Finanzmanagementsumfaßt im funktionellen Sinne alle Tätigkeiten, diesich auf die Beschaffung, Verwaltung und Verwendungvon Kapital in einer internationalen Unternehmungbeziehen (Kapitalbeschaffung, -+CasbManagement, Kapitalstrukturpolitik,...

[...]This article examines the origins and early development ofthe Federal Reserve’s book-entry system—the system mostclosely associated with the elimination of definitive, orcertificated, Treasury securities. We suggest that the Fed’ssystem was the product of three important factors: the...

[...]This article examines the introduction of regular auctionofferings of Treasury notes and bonds in the early 1970s. We donot take issue with the conventional wisdom that auctions aremore efficient and less costly than fixed-price offerings. Rather,we seek to identify why the Treasury twice...

[...]This article describes the U.S. experience with inflationindexeddebt, including the evolution of activity in the TIISmarket since its inception and the valuation of those securitiesrelative to nominal Treasury issues. We show that despite thepotential appeal of TIIS, their yields have been...

[...]This article adds to the literature by estimating andevaluating a comprehensive set of liquidity measures for theU.S. Treasury securities market. High-frequency data from theinterdealer market allow for an analysis of trading volume,trading frequency, bid-ask spreads, quote sizes, trade...

[...]We also concentrate our survey on literature that testseconomic hypotheses within samples of U.S. firms. However,we believe that much of our discussion can be generalized tofirms throughout the world. Bushman and Smith (2003)present a broad overview of how differences in...