The current financial market crisis has impressively demonstrated the importance of an effective credit risk management for financial institutions. At the same time, the use and the valuation of credit derivatives has been widely criticised as a result of the crisis. Over the past decade, credit...

Credit risk measurement and management become more important in all financial institutions in the light of the current financial crisis and the global recession. This particularly applies to most of the complex structured financing forms whose risk cannot be quantified with com-mon rating...

In January 2010 the Deutsche Börse Group introduced two family firm stock indices. Both indices are calculated as price and performance indices and extend the number of investment strategy indices of Deutsche Börse Group. The DAXplus Family is an all-share index whereas the DAXplus Family 30...

The credit crisis and the following sovereign debt crisis during 2007 and 2012 led to an increasing volatility of European corporate bond credit spreads. European investment grade credit spreads rose in 2007 and 2008 from 50 BP to over 350 BP. In the years after the credit spreads declined to...

Optionen und andere Derivate erfreuen sich wachsender Beliebtheit bei einer Vielzahl von Unternehmen, welche mit deren Hilfe Absicherungsgeschäfte vornehmen, spekulieren oder an deren Handel verdienen. Für all diese Motive bilden Bewertungsmodelle die Grundlage, um damit den fairen Wert...

Über die Vorteilhaftigkeit von Copula-GARCH-Modellen im finanzwirtschaftlichen Risikomanagement Im Fokus des vorliegenden Beitrages stehen zwei Fragen: Wann sollte ein Copula-GARCH-Modell einem korrelationsbasierten Modell vorgezogen werden? Und welche parametrische Copula-Form sollte in diesem...

Crowdinvesting bietet Privatinvestoren die Möglichkeit, sich auch mit relativ geringen Geldbeträgen an Startups zu beteiligen. Jedoch haben die Anleger durch eine Vielzahl teils öffentlichkeitswirksamer Pleiten einen Totalverlust des eingesetzten Kapitals erlitten. Die Ausfallraten deutscher...

In almost every financial market crisis we can observe widening credit spreads, especially in the last years during the subprime and sovereign debt crisis. But what exactly drives the credit spread? This paper will outline static components, i.e. default risk, liquidity, risk and the relative...

The current financial market crisis has impressively demonstrated the importance of aneffective credit risk management for financial institutions. At the same time, the use and thevaluation of credit derivatives has been widely criticised as a result of the crisis. Over the pastdecade, credit...

This article is centred around the notions of shareholder value orientation and financialisation. Shareholder value orientation is reflected by a high dividend payout ratio applied by firms and the reluctance of firms to finance physical investment via new equity issues. Financialisation is the...