This book presents a macroeconomic dynamic model à la Solow-Swan, including the market for labor, in a discrete time structure. The model is expanded to include expenditure on RD and public expenditure on infrastructure. For each of the three models the results are shown in time series figures,...

The current world financial scene indicates at an intertwined and interdependent relationship between financial market activity and economic health. This book explains how the economic messages delivered by the dynamic evolution of financial asset returns are strongly related to option prices....

This book presents methodologies for the Bayesian estimation of GARCH models and their application to financial risk management. The study of these models from a Bayesian viewpoint is relatively recent and can be considered very promising due to the advantages of the Bayesian approach, in...

This textbook provides an introduction to environmental finance and investments. The current situation raises fundamental questions that this book aims to address. Under which conditions could carbon pricing schemes contribute to a significant decrease in emissions? What are the new investment...

Financial economics is a fascinating topic where ideas from economics, mathematics and, most recently, psychology are combined to understand financial markets. This book gives a concise introduction into this field and includes for the first time recent results from behavioral finance that help...

Foundations -- Decision Theory -- Financial Markets -- Two-Period Model: Mean-Variance Approach -- Two-Period Model: State-Preference Approach -- Multiple-Periods Model -- Advanced Topics -- Theory of the Firm -- Information Asymmetries on Financial Markets -- Time-Continuous Model

Informationsasymmetrien bei Anleihefinanzierung -- Ansätze zur Reduktion von Agency-Problemen bei Anleihefinanzierung -- Lösungsansätze von Agency-Problemen bei Anleihen von eigentümergeführten Unternehmen: Der Informationsökonomische Bewertungsrahmen -- Fallstudienanalyse zur...

Grundlagen der Untersuchung -- Verwendung von Direktzusagen im Unternehmen -- Ausfinanzierung von Direktzusagen -- Entwicklung und Durchführung der Empirie -- Empirische Ergebnisse: Verbreitung und Ausgestaltung der Direktzusage -- Eignung der Ausfinanzierungsmöglichkeiten -- Schlussbetrachtung.

und Gegenstand der Arbeit -- Begriffsbildung -- Theoretische Fundierung -- Ableitung des Forschungsmodells -- Befragungsdesign, Stichprobe und Methode -- Ergebnisse der empirischen Untersuchung -- Implikationen und kritische Würdigung.