Überall auf der Welt haben Regierungen Pläne für ultra-schnelle nationale Breitbandnetzeangekündigt. Netzbetreiber, insbesondere Incumbents, scheinen dagegen wenigerbegeistert über groß angelegte Investitionsprogramme in Glasfasernetze zu sein.Wenn sie investieren, scheinen sie mehr auf...

An alternative minimum tax (AMT) is often regarded as desirable. We analyze a wealthtax at corporate and personal level that is designed as an AMT as proposed by the GermanGreen Party. This wealth tax is imputable to profit taxes and is hence intended to preventmultiple (multistage) taxation....

China’s banking market is one of the most attractive investment targets for financial institutionsworldwide especially since the opening up of the market in December 2006. Based oninterviews with experts this paper analyses the question of benefits and risks of foreign directinvestments into...

In this article we analyze firms investment incentives in liberalized electricity markets. Sinceelectricity is economically non storable, it is optimal for firms to invest in a differentiatedportfolio of technologies in order to serve strongly fluctuating demand. Prior to theLiberalization of...

Insurance Industry will create a more efficient, customer centric, collaborative and innovative marketplace. Embrace extended/networked business models that include innovation across value chain through capabilities of strategic partners, best practices, expertise, and capital...

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier beschreibt den entsprechenden Einsatz künstlicher Ameisen und diskutiert erste numerische Ergebnisse.

Investitionsneutrale Steuersysteme haben keinen Einfluss auf unternehmerische Investitionsentscheidungen. Diese Eigenschaft besitzen die Besteuerung des ökonomischen Gewinns, die Cashflow–Steuer und die zinsbereinigte Steuer. Von diesen drei Systemen weist die zinsbereinigte Steuer die...

This paper suggests that changing risk conveys information useful to improve performance.

In this paper cluster analysis is used to construct homogeneous groups from 157 UK local markets using commercial property returns.