Using a novel approach, this paper analyses the deliberately communicated uncertainty of the ECB to the market. Specifically, it semantically analyses the uncertainty expressed in official ECB press statements. The analysis shows how the ECB tries to alert or appease the market with different...

Die drohende Zahlungsunfähigkeit Griechenlands hat die EWU-Staaten zu immer neuen Unterstützungsaktionen veranlasst. Die Banken sollen sich an den Maßnahmen beteiligen. Die Vereinbarungen dazu sind in ihrer Konsequenz allerdings schwer zu durchschauen. Wer wird hier eigentlich zu welchen...

Venture projects are fraught with exogenous market risk and endogenous agency risk. We apply a real options perspective to analyze the investment decision of the venture capitalist (VC) in this set-up. The solutions presented are conflictive: the VC reduces his exposure to exogenous risk by...