This paper focuses on firm valuation for tax purposes of non-listed companyshares and its sensitivity towards different market conditions. Since the value of a privatecompany cannot be observed on the stock market the value has to be estimated. Due touncertainty, expected future profits may not...

Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt auf, welche grundsätzlichen Verfahren eingesetzt werden können,um Investitionsentscheidungen unter Unsicherheit zu treffen.In Kapitel 2 wird mit dem Kapitalwert das wohl grundlegendste Verfahren der Investitionsbeurteilungbeschrieben.Kapitel 3 beschäftigt sich in...

Die Erstellung, Berechnung und Analyse eines Entscheidungsbaumes im Rahmen der flexiblen Planung stellt insbesondere bei komplexeren Entscheidungsproblemen ein mitunter langwieriges und kompliziertes Unterfangen dar. In diesem Beitrag soll anhand eines Fallbeispiels aufgezeigt werden, wie diese...

In enhanced annuities, the annuity payment depends on one's state ofhealth at some contracted date while in "standard annuities", it does not.The focus of this paper is on an annuity market where "standard" and en-hanced annuities are oered simultaneously. When all insured know equallywell on...

Ein Privatanleger strukturiert sein Finanzvermögen in Abhängigkeitseiner individuellen Risikoeinstellung sowie der Höhe und der Risikobehaftung seinesGesamtkapitals bestehend aus Finanz-, Human- und Sozialkapital. Da sich die einzelnenBestandteile des Gesamtkapitals über den Zeitablauf...

This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans – inparticular instalment loans and overdrafts – to finance business activities. Controlling forfinancial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed householdsparticularly use personal...

We conduct a framed field experiment with 245 employed persons (no students) as subjectsand a real tax, which is levied on the subjects’ income from working in our real effort task. Inour first three treatments, the net wage is constant but gross wages are subject to differentconstant marginal...

A deferred annuity typically includes an option-like right for thepolicyholder. At the end of the deferment period, he may either choose toreceive annuity payouts, calculated based on a mortality table agreed to atcontract inception, or receive the accumulated capital as a lump sum.Considering...

Empirical evidences show that investors tend to be biased toward investing indomestic (home bias) and local (local bias) stocks. Familiarity is considered to be one of thereasons. A similar concept was proposed by Goldstein and Gigerenzer (1999, 2002), known asthe recognition heuristic: “when...

Extensive field evidence shows individuals’ decisions in settings involving choiceunder uncertainty (e.g. savings and investment choices) depend on the decisions of their peers.One hypothesized cause of peer group effects is social interaction effects: an individual’s utilityfrom an action...