This paper reports on the application of a probabilistic forecasting framework to Statistics New Zealand’s 2004-based national population projections. The assumptions of the Series 5 projections (the middle series)were set as the medians of the fertility, mortality and net migration predictive...

Consumption is perhaps the most important economic behavior of human beings. To it goes the lion's share of the country's annual product. This study is part of the ongoing efforts to give a reasonable description of how various factors affect household consumption decision. Those factors include...

The thesis consists of two essays: "The CAPM -- A General Equilibrium Foundation" and "The Foreign Exchange Rate in Financial Markets".The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is one of the most successful models for portfolio selection. The utility functions are assumed to depend positively on...

stock markets linkages and analysis of the arbitrage between spot and futures markets. The first part is devoted to examination of long and short term dependencies between markets. As an example of long term relationship between stock markets, the influence of US market on the most important...

Corporate Venture Capital bezeichnet die Finanzierung von Jungunternehmen durch etablierte Firmen. Diese Dissertation untersucht anhand eines Datensatzes die Unterschiede zwischen Venture Capital und Corporate Venture Capital und eruiert die Einflussfaktoren auf das Umsatz- und...

Basierend auf den Perspektiven, wie Netzwerke Sozialkapital schaffen, analysiert diese Arbeit die Positionen, die Venture Capital Gesellschaften (VCG) in ihrem Syndizierungsnetzwerk innehaben und bestimmt die Auswirkung von Netzwerkpositionen auf die Deal Flow Quantität und Qualität. Der...

Unter Schlagzeilen wie "Venture Capital - Treibstoff für Traumrenditen", "Die neue Gründerzeit" oder "Geld wie Heu" hat sich die Wirtschaftspresse mit dem Phänomen einer neuen Gründerwelle befasst, die nach den USA nun auch Europa erfasst hat. Venture Capital (VC) oder Wagniskapital spielt...

This dissertation comprises five different stand-alone research papers that were written as part of the doctoral program in “Quantitative Economics and Finance” at the University of Konstanz within the period of January 2004 and January 2008. All of the papers deal with an empirical analysis...