This textbook first introduces the reader to return measurement and then goes on to compare the time-weighted rate of return (TWR) with the money-weighted rate of return (MWR). To emphasize the importance of risk in conjunction with return, different tracking errors are analyzed and ex-post...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to financial modeling that teaches advanced undergraduate and graduate students in finance and economics how to use R to analyze financial data and implement financial models. This text will show students how to obtain publicly available data, manipulate...

Die Anlageberatung -- Theoretische Grundlagen und empirische Befunde -- Methodik -- Messmethodik Beratungsintensität und Kundenportfoliorendite -- Die Stichprobe -- Empirische Analyse: Deskriptive Statistik und Einflüsse der Anlageberatung auf die Portfoliodeterminanten -- Vereinfachter...

This textbook first introduces the reader to return measurement and then goes on to compare the time-weighted rate of return (TWR) with the money-weighted rate of return (MWR). To emphasize the importance of risk in conjunction with return, different tracking errors are analyzed and ex-post...

Das System Nonprofit-Organisation – Umfelder, Stakeholder und Steuerung -- Improving Stakeholder Relations – Vertrauensbildende Maßnahmen -- Gedanklicher Bezugsrahmen: Konzeptionsrahmen einer stakeholderorientierten Leistungsberichterstattung als Instrument zur Beziehungsgestaltung -- Das...

1 -- The Notion of Creative Industries -- On the Theory of Creative Industries -- An International Overview on the Creative Industries -- 2 -- From Theory to Empirics -- The Berlin Creative Industries at a Glance -- The Creative Industries in Detail -- Excursus: Differences among Research...

Crowdfunding is becoming an increasingly popular method to finance projects of every kind and scale. This contributed volume is one of the earliest books presenting scientific and research-based perspectives of crowdfunding, its development, and future. The European Crowdfunding Network (ECN)...

The purpose of this book is to establish a connection between the traditional field of empirical economic research and the emerging area of empirical financial research, and to build a bridge between theoretical developments in these areas and their application in practice. Accordingly, it...

Nadine Scholz shows that crowdfunding potentially shortens the development cycle of new products, thus enabling an earlier market entry. Hence, crowdfunding serves as a multifaceted early-stage support instrument for innovation implementation facilitated by the crowd's resources. It not only...