Die Arbeit untersucht die derzeit auf europäischer Ebene im Rahmen des Solvency II-Projektes reformierte Finanzaufsicht über Versicherungsunternehmen aus betriebswirtschaftlicher Perspektive, wobei von der Anwendung von Solvency II auf deutsche Lebensversicherungsunternehmen ausgegangen wird....

ZusammenfassungDie Messung und Bewertung von Kreditrisiken stellt sich aktuell als ein sehr bedeutsames (Stichworte : Basel II, Solvency II, Kreditderivate) Gebiet dar. Allerdings hat sich hierbei keine einheitliche Vorgehensweise herausgebildet, sondern es existieren eine Vielzahl...

The ambition of this article is to demonstrate positives, but also the fall back of the Solvency II and of the delayed and uncoordinated implementation among the national regulators.This article summarizes the trends in insurance market regulation following the introduction and consequent...

The ambition of this article is to demonstrate positives, but also the fall back of the Solvency II and of the delayed and uncoordinated implementation among the national regulators.This article summarizes the trends in insurance market regulation following the introduction and consequent...

Risk aversion is a key element of utility maximizing hedge strategies; however, it hastypically been assigned an arbitrary value in the literature. This paper instead applies a GARCH-in-Mean (GARCH-M) model to estimate a time-varying measure of riskaversion that is based on the observed risk...

This thesis explores the economics of corporate investment and investigates how problems of asymmetric information and strategic interaction influence the efficiency of investment behavior. I present theoretical work and empirical results from a survey of European chief financial executives.

Risk Management is an important process to be carried out for any form of interaction before decision-making. This process will help the concerned user to take steps and actions accordingly in order to address risks and achieve the activity's desired goals. Various techniques and approaches for...

Over the last decade, the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) has become preferred government option for the provision of different services to the public. In PFI procurement, private companies take on the obligation to build and manage a facility but provide only a small fraction of the project?s...

The wherewithal of achieving best value in private finance initiative (PFI) projects and the associated problems therein are documented. In the UK, PFI has offered a solution to the problem of securing necessary investment at a time of severe public expenditure restraint. In PFI schemes, the...