Vor dem Hintergrund positiver Entwicklungsmöglicheiten des Leasinggeschäfts ist mit einem weiterhin steigenden Refinanzierungsbedarf der Leasinggesellschaften zu rechnen.Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit soll anhand eines kriterienorientierten Vergleichs dieses neue Instrument mit einer...

In recent years the market for asset backed securities (ABS) has shown a rapid growth. In an ABS transaction assets are first pooled and then securities backed by this pool are issued. In many cases, several tranches of securities differing with respect to their priority of payment are designed....

Der klassische Kredit wird bei größeren Unternehmen häufig durch eine direkte Finanzierung an Geld- oder Kapitalmärkten ersetzt. Dies ermög-lichen zum Beispiel Anleihen oder Aktien, aber auch das Forderungs-management bietet hier Lösungen, die für den Mittelstand eine zu-kunftsweisende...

Since the first public offering in 1985 asset backed securities (ABS) are one of the most rapidly growing segments of the U.S. capital markets. Finding its genesis in the refinancing of mortgages in the United States, ABS are structured by packaging a pool of financial assets, such as automobile...

This paper investigates the market pricing of subprime mortgage risk on the basis of data forthe ABX.HE family of indices, which have become a key barometer of mortgage marketconditions during the recent financial crisis. After an introduction into ABX index mechanicsand a discussion of...

The paper presents an empirical analysis of the alledged transformation of the financial systems in the three major European economies, France, Germany and the UK. Based on a unified data set developed on the basis of national accounts statistics, and employing a new and consistent method of...

This paper shows how financial contracts might be redesigned to allow for banks to manage the idiosyncratic component for their own accounts.

The consensus about the ability of the standard open-economy neoclassical growthmodel to account for interest-rate driven business cycles has changed over time:whereas early research concluded that business cycles are neutral to interest-rateshocks, more recent investigations suggest that these...

This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technologyshocks on business cycle dynamics, where firms rely on banks and households for capitalfinancing. Firms are identical ex ante but differ ex post due to different realizations of firmspecific technology...