Subject of the study presented in this paper is the analysis of the relevance of the Internet asan information source in German banks. The results show, that today the Internet is indeed themost important information source for many types of information used in the business processesof banks....

Welche Einflussfaktoren bestimmen die Spreadentwicklung im Kapitalmarktsegment derBanken im Verlauf der Finanzkrise? Unter Verwendung der Regressionsanalyse werden dieDeterminanten von Asset-Swap- (ASW) und Credit-Default-Swap- (CDS) Spreads ausgewähltereuropäischer Banken im Zeitraum April...

Im Arbeitsbericht wurden die wesentlichen Kapitalbestandteile der Bank vorgestellt. Durchdas Bankenaufsichtsrecht entstehen bei Kern- und Ergänzungskapital haftende Eigenkapitalformen,die bilanziell aber wie Fremdkapital wirken. Dies führt zu einer Erweiterung desWACC im Bankenrahmen. Hinzu...

In recent years, diversity management has evolved from a perspective on human resourcesmanagement toward a conception of strategic management. This implies the need to adapt acentral management function, strategic controlling, in order to render the conception of diversitymanagement in...

The report describes the current developments of the German market for Non Performing Loans/Distressed Debt as it is influenced by the financial crisis/credit crunch. Furthermore the sale of (small and medium sized) real estate portfolios since summer 2007 is analysed in more detail.

Neuroeconomics stays in the center of the ongoing naturalistic turn in economics. It portraysthe individual as a complex system of decision making mechanisms and modules. This resultsinto a conceptual tension with the standard economic notion of the unity of the actor that is asystemic property...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the dynamic relationships between some key variables for the euro area by means of a systems approach (i.e. so-called Vector Autoregression) and to simulate their responses with respect to monetary policy shocks. The main result is that rather simple...