This book presents an overview of corporate governance and risk management, analyzing their interdependence and particularly their relevance in banking. It discusses current trends in corporate governance, such as stakeholder management, financial performance and the cost of equity, compensation...

As ‘disruption’ is currently becoming the new buzzword in boardrooms, this book advocates that the most striking opportunity for business today is making itself relevant to its stakeholders. By presenting a new route via innovative business models, a transformational corporate approach to...

A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise

This book examines the linkage between central bank structure, central bank autonomy-with respect to setting its monetary policy goals, choosing its policy mechanisms, legal independence, and financial independence-and monetary policy, both in select benchmark countries and at a broader...

This book identifies and explores the mechanisms linking political institutions and variation in capitalist systems. A strong correlation exists between varieties of political regimes and varieties of capitalism: majoritarian political regimes are correlated with liberal market economies (LMEs)...

In light of demographic change and the growing problems of traditional old-age security systems, this book discusses two essential instruments in connection with privately providing for old-age security: (1) savings in private pension schemes and (2) building up equity for home-ownership....

Mareike Schad examines how redistributive policy measures influence intergenerational income mobility, taking into account various facets of the parent-child connection. In the first part, the author investigates the impact of education and education policy on income mobility both theoretically...

Einführung und institutionelle Grundlagen -- Informationsfunktion -- Rechnungslegung und Kapitalmarkt -- Bilanzierungs- und Bewertungsgrundsätze -- Ausschüttungsbemessung -- Bilanzpolitik -- Publizität -- Wirtschaftsprüfung -- Prüferhaftung und Prüfungspolitik -- Unabhängigkeit des Prüfers.

Die Entwicklung und Implementierung interner Verfahren zur Beurteilung und Sicherstellung der angemessenen ökonomischen Kapitalausstattung (Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process, ICAAP), die neben der Kapitalplanung und Stresstests das Risikotragfähigkeitskonzept umfassen, bilden unter...

Dieser Band stellt in der erweiterten 2. Auflage die wesentlichen Faktoren eines guten Risikomanagements vor. Hans-Christian Brauweiler präsentiert sein Konzept des Risk Cubes, welches die zur Klassifizierung und Kategorisierung häufig verwendete zweidimensionale Risk Map um eine dritte und...