Regret als Erkenntnisobjekt -- Charakteristika und Determinanten des Regret-Konzepts aus entscheidungstheoretischer und verhaltenswissenschaftlicher Sicht -- Die Rolle des Regret für die Kundenloyalität -- Die empirische Untersuchung -- Implikationen für Forschung und Praxis.

Themenmotivation und Gang der Untersuchung -- Grundlagen der Industrialisierung von Banken -- Grundlagen und Struktur des Modells -- Konkrete Modell-Umsetzung und Ergebnisse -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick.

Dynamische Investitionsrechnung und Steuerplanung im internationalen Kontext -- Optimale Repatriierungspolitik unter Sicherheit -- Optimale Repatriierungspolitk unter Unsicherheit -- Zusammenfassung und Fazit.

This book proposes an integrated approach to patent risk and capital budgeting in pharmaceutical research and development (R and D), developing an option-based view (OBV) of imperfect patent protection, which draws upon contingent-claims analysis, stochastic game theory, as well as novel...

This book tries to sort out the different meanings of uncertainty and to discover their foundations. It shows that uncertainty can be represented using various tools and mental guidelines. Coverage also examines alternative ways to deal with risk and risk attitude concepts. Behavior under...

This book revises the well-known capacity control problem in revenue management from the perspective of a risk-averse decision-maker. Modelling an expected utility maximizing decision maker, the problem is formulated as a risk-sensitive Markov decision process. Special emphasis is put on the...

This book is devoted to investment decision-making under uncertainty. The book covers three basic approaches to this process: the stochastic dominance approach; the mean-variance approach; and the non-expected utility approach, focusing on prospect theory and its modified version, cumulative...

Ongoing global changes pose fundamentally new scientific problems requiring new concepts and tools. A key issue concerns a vast variety of practically irreducible uncertainties, which challenge traditional models and require new concepts and analytical tools. Uncertainty can dominate, as in the...

This book analyzes the economic principles of modern corporate taxation. It is novel in two respects. First of all, it analyzes not only the effects of taxation on firms' marginal choices, but also focuses on the impact of taxation on discrete choices, such as plant location, R and D investment,...