Nach den Terrorattacken vom 11. September sehen sich die privaten Erst- und Rückversicherer mit einer völlig veränderten Risikolage konfrontiert, die sie bisher bei ihren Kalkulationen außer Acht ließen. Dr. Michael Wolgast, Gesamtverband der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft, schlägt...

Das Krankenversicherungssystem in Deutschland ist seit Jahren in der Kritik. Reformbedarf besteht sowohl bei der Gesetzlichen als auch bei der Privaten Krankenversicherung. Ist ein einheitlicher Versicherungsmarkt die Lösung? Peter Oberender und Jürgen Zerth, Universität Bayreuth, sehen in...

On April 16, 2012 the Argentine Federal Government decreed the intervention of YPF and expropriated of 51% of the YPF shares owned by Repsol. Repsol had a 57.4% stake. A tribunal will determine the compensation Repsol will receive for its YPF shares. You are required to help the tribunal. What...

Company valuation using discounted cash flows is based on the valuation of the Government bonds: it consists of applying the procedure used to value the Government bonds to the debt and shares of a company. This is easy to understand (sections 1, 2 and 3). But company valuation is complicated by...

This paper contains the statistics of a survey about the Risk-Free Rate (RF) and the Market Risk Premium (MRP) used in 2021 for 88 countries. We got answers for 92 countries, but we only report the results for 88 countries with more than 6 answers. Many respondents use for European countries a...

This paper addresses 10 corporate finance topics that are not well treated (or not treated at all) in many Corporate Finance Books. The topics are: 1. Where does the WACC equation come from? 2. The WACC is not a cost. 3. What is the WACC equation when the value of the debt is not equal to its...

English Abstract: During the last 10 years (2001-2011), the average return of the mutual funds in Spain (1.3%) was smaller than the average inflation. Nevertheless, on December 31, 2011, 4.9 million investors had 128 billion euros in the 2,471 existing mutual funds. Only 1 of the 368 mutual...

English Abstract: During the last 10 years, the average return of the pension funds in Spain was lower than the inflation and than the return of Government Bonds. Only 2 funds (out of 532) had a return higher than the return of Government Bonds. Nevertheless, on December 31, 2011, 5.1 million...

Spanish Abstarct: Este documento responde a la pregunta de muchos alumnos: ¿tan mal está España? Lo primero: diferenciar entre España y el “Estado” (un trozo importante de España). Se muestran los datos principales a los que hemos tenido acceso. Las cuentas del Estado Español son muy...

Spanish Abstract: Se compara la evolución de once índices bursátiles en el periodo 2007- 7 enero 2021 y se comparan los descensos de la “crisis del coronavirus” y los de la crisis de 2007… (financiera en algunos países, política-regulatoria-inmobiliaria-financiera en otros…), que en...