Customized business models are critical for the success of companies that offer coupled sales and financing contracts in highly competitive markets. The aim of this article is to compare two financing solutions based on a quantitative model and to determine the solution that is advantageous for...

We examine whether bankers face disciplining consequences for structuring poorly performing corporate loans. We construct a novel dataset containing the employment histories and loan portfolios of a large sample of corporate bankers and find that corporate credit events (i.e., downgrades,...

1. Attacks on IT systems: categories of motives / Georg Disterer -- 2. Wireless security / Faisal Kaleem and Kang K. Yen -- 3. Analysis, development and deployment of statistical anomaly detection techniques for real e-mail traffic / Gianluca Papaleo ... [et al.] -- 4. Forensics challenges for...