The productivity of (human) information processing as an economicactivity is a question that is raising some interest. Using Marschak’s evaluationframework, Radner and Stiglitz have shown that, under certain conditions,the production function of this activity has increasingmarginal returns in...

Information is a precious resource when solving decision problemsunder uncertainty. The paper deals with the estimation of the value of informationunder different rationality concepts of the decision maker. The value of informationand the expected value of (un)certain information will be...

Die vorliegende Arbeit befaßt sich mit Beispielen, möglichen Problemen und Erfolgsfaktoren des Viral Marketing.

Monetary union in Germany as part of the reunification process required a conversion rate between the Deutschmark and the Mark, the currencies of West and East Germany respectively. Flows (in particular wages and pensions) were converted at a rate of 1:1, whilst there were different conversion...

Ein IFRS-Abschluss hat die Vermögens-, Finanz- und Ertragslage sowie die Cash-flows des Unternehmens den tatsächlichen Verhätnissen entsprechend wiederzugeben. Daher müssen IFRS - Bilanzierer Geschäftsvorfälle, sonstige Ereignisse und Bedingungen gemäß den im IASB-Rahmenkonzept...

In a qualitative leadership study conducted in the German-speaking part of Switzerland thequest to be oneself i.e., to be authentic was found to be central for leadership. We will presentthe results in detail and highlight the difficulties leaders experience when trying to beauthentic in their...