This paper investigates the determinants of vertical integration. We first derive a number of predictions regarding the relationship between technology intensity and vertical integration from a simple model with nancial imperfections andincomplete contracts. Then, we investigate these...

We study properties of structured financial products optimizing a utility functional of a customer. The conventional method may have the disadvantage that the a priori restriction to a certain number of assets could make it impossible to find the optimal portfolio. So instead of optimizing the...

This paper sheds light on the influence of exchange rate volatility on foreign direct investment (FDI), both at the theoretical and the empirical level. The novelty of the empirical analysis, which is based on a panel of 27 OECD countries over the period 1982-2002, is to provide evidence of a...

Innerhalb des Bankmanagements hat die sogenannte Marktzinsmethode zentrale Bedeutung erlangt. Der Vorschlag, diesen Ansatz auch auf die Analyse betrieblicher Realinvestitionen zu übertragen, liess eine Grundsatzdiskussion über die Zweckmäßigkeit eines solchen Vorgehens entstehen...