Verfassungen beschränken den Spielraum zukünftigen Handelns. Durch Selbstbindung schützen sich Akteure, so scheint es, vor sich selbst, d. h. vor den selbstverursachten Handlungsfolgen, die sie sonst zu bedauern hätten und vor denen sie diese Selbstbindung verschont. So gesehen steigern...

Die Reform des Erbschaftsteuer- und Bewertungsrechts zum 1.1.2009 hat unter anderem zumZiel, die Vorgaben des Bundesverfassungsgerichts hinsichtlich einer gleichmäßigen, amVerkehrswert ausgerichteten Bewertung von vererbtem oder verschenktem Vermögen zuerfüllen1. Im Rahmen der Reform wurde...

Several top deals already closed, a still highly fragmented industry and strong pressure for furtherconsolidation following the financial crisis – renewable energy certainly has become a red-hot topic inM&A. Surveying 220 companies in the solar photovoltaic, utility and financial sector as...

Since years, incentives for the management have become a standard upon acquisitions of companies byPrivate Equity Investors – so-called Buy-Outs. However, until this date there are no empirical studies availableon the arrangements of management participations and potential conflicts of...

Fifteen per cent of British babies are now born to parents who are neithercohabiting nor married. Little is known about non-residential fatherhood thatcommences with the birth of a child. Here, we use the Millennium Cohort Studyto examine a number of aspects of this form of fatherhood. Firstly,...

The paper attempts to explain the failure of postcommunist traders exemplified by Balkan traders to make use of arbitration courts by means of the rational choice of forum approach offered by the law and economics movement. Conjectures about traders’ behaviour derived by combining this approach...

The report describes the current developments of the German market for Non Performing Loans/Distressed Debt as it is influenced by the financial crisis/credit crunch. Furthermore the sale of (small and medium sized) real estate portfolios since summer 2007 is analysed in more detail.

The work report first describes the current developments on the German market for nonperformingloans, which after its peak in spring 2007 is now also affected by the financialcrisis. The sale of small and medium-size portfolios is described within the scope of a casestudy. Furthermore, the...

The report deals with the current questions relating to the work-out, outsourcing and servicingof non-performing-loans. After a brief market description the paper addresses the specificproblems, which arise when servicing real estate and corporate loans. Within these frameworkissues, which...