Das vorliegende Papier beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie viele ausländische Euro-Münzenpro Tag in ein Euro-Land einströmen. Dafür formulieren wir ein kleines formalmathematischesModell, das wir für den Fall Deutschlands und 1-Euro-Münzen kalibrieren.Die Einführung der Euro-Münzen 2002...

During the turbulent 1970s and 1980s the Bundesbank established an outstandingreputation in the world of central banking. Germany achieved a high degree of domesticstability and provided safe haven for investors in times of turmoil in the internationalfinancial system. Eventually the Bundesbank...

This paper analyzes the recently documented instability of money demand in theeuro area in the framework of a Markov switching trend model. First, we consider astandard flexible price model with stable money demand, rational expectations, andan exogenous income-money ratio which follows a Markov...

Tobin (1958) has argued that in the face of potential capital losses on bonds it is reasonable to hold cash as a means to transfer wealth over time. It is shown that this assertion cannot be sustained taking into account the evolution of wealth of cash holders versus non cash holders. Cash...

This paper provides empirical evidence in favor of the hypothesis thatthe secular price increase in the 16th century is mainly caused by money supplydevelopments as the discovery of new mines in Latin America. First we reviewprice developments for several European countries over the 16th century...

Model risk as part of the operational risk is a serious problem for financial institutions.As the pricing of derivatives as well as the computation of the marketor credit risk of an institution depend on statistical models the application of awrong model can lead to a serious over- or...

In Unternehmungen werden regelmäßig Entscheidungen über IT-Projekte getroffenmit dem Ziel, den Nutzen dieser Investitionen zu maximieren. Vor dem Hintergrund,dass rund zwei Drittel der IT-Projekte den prognostizierten Nutzen nicht erreichen,wird die Notwendigkeit einer ex ante Bewertung von...

This paper examines the impact of agency conicts on corporate nancing decisions. Werst build a dynamic contingent claims model in which nancing policy results from a trade-obetween tax benets, contracting frictions, and agency conicts. In our setting, partially-entrenched managers set the rms'...

We present the asymptotic properties of double-stage quantile regressionestimators with random regressors, where the first stage is based on quantile regressionswith the same quantile as in the second stage, which ensures robustness of the estimationprocedure. We derive invariance properties...