Grundlagen der Optionspreistheorie -- Extrahierung der risikoneutralen Wahrscheinlichkeitsdichtefunktion -- Anwendungsgebiete risikoneutraler Wahrscheinlichkeitsdichtefunktionen -- Empirische Untersuchungen -- Zusammenfassung und Schlussfolgerungen.

Die schnelle Entwicklung des Informationsmediums Internet bietet Online-Zeitungen ein hohes Wachstumspotenzial. Allerdings können die bisher meist kostenlosen Online-Zeitungen allein durch Werbeeinnahmen kaum profitabel gestaltet werden. Timo Schulze untersucht, wie optimale Nutzungspreise für...

Demographic trends put a burden on EU pension provision. As the sustainability of pension systems is addressed by current pension reforms, lower benefit levels are projected. In this scenario, households may want to consider supplementing their public pension income. As their own residence is on...

Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Neoclassical and Post-Keynesian Theories of Regional Growth and Convergence/Divergence -- 3 'Endogenous Growth Theory' and 'New Economic Geography' -- 4 Club Convergence -- 5 Empirical Measure of Regional Convergence -- 6 EU-27 Regions: Absolute or Club...

Informationsverarbeitung bei der Jahresabschlussprüfung -- Prüfung geschätzter Werte und kognitive Verzerrungen -- Stand der Forschung zur Key Audit Matter Berichterstattung -- Integrative Darstellung von Studien zu Entzerrungsstrategien -- Bezugsrahmen zu Entzerrungsstrategien in der...

Innovationen und Entrepreneurship -- Innovationen und Steuersysteme -- Rahmenbedingungen der Steuerpolitik in der EU -- Steuern, Innovationen, Entrepreneurship und Wachstum -- Empirische Analyse der Innovationsaktivität in Europa.

Applying novel datasets, Fabian Gäßler analyzes how key aspects of the current patent system in Europe and Germany, respectively, affect patent enforcement and patent trade. In particular, he shows what factors determine court selection in patent litigation and how the jurisdictional...

Philipp Mohl evaluates the macroeconomic effects of EU Cohesion Policy with the help of empirical methods. His findings indicate that in particular the part of EU Cohesion Policy which is spent for the poorest regions (the so-called Objective 1 funding) has a positive and statistically...

An Optional European Contract Code in the Institutional Competition between European Contract Laws -- Assessment of the Desirability of an Optional European Contract Law -- Evaluation of the European Commission's Impact Assessment Accompanying the Proposal for a Regulation on a CESL.

Monetary policy transmission -- A new view: Implications of financial innovation for the bank lending channel -- Bank lending against the background of the recent crisis -- Empirical analysis: Determinants of bank lending during normal and crisis periods.