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Four Essays on Debt Securitization and Entrepreneurial Finance
Weber, Thomas - 2008
Chapter 1 is joint work with Günter Franke, University of Konstanz, and Markus Herrmann, HSBC London, and addresses the question how collateralized debt obligation (CDO-) transactions are designed. An important issue is the information asymmetry about the quality of securitized debt between...
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Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Dürsch, Peter - 2010
Kooperation in einem einmaligen Spiel. Darüber hinaus finden wir keinen Hinweis darauf, dass Risikoaversion ein Faktor ist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476200
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An institution theory approach to the relationship between organization and society
Gebhardt, Christian - 2011
results of an extensive ethnographic field study of the 2006 to 2008 Siemens corruption scandal. We find that this event did … corporate corruption with regard to its regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive dimensions. It is therefore particularly … perspective we reconstruct the development of the institutional context of the phenomenon corruption as well as its effects on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447139
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The Political Determinants of the Depth of Banking Crises
Winkler, Nicolas - 2006
Seit dem Ende der Bretton-Woods Ära haben zahlreiche Bankenkrisen Volkswirtschaften immense Kosten auferlegt. Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit den politökonomischen Einflussfaktoren auf die Tiefe dieser Bankenkrisen. Es wird argumentiert, dass nur schnelle und tiefgreifende...
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Corruption and Central Banks
Schinke, Michael - 2005
welfare through their decisions. Yet, cases of central bank corruption abound. The dissertation provides examples of ?pure …? corruption in central banks. Only a few studies address corruption and similar, but not necessarily criminal, behavior of central … bank employees and governors, even though corruption in the central bank is obviously possible. By the very nature of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484798
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Three Essays on Anti-Corruption Legislation and Reform
Nell, Mathias - 2007
in and that put their clout for the fight against corruption in question. Against this background, three novel anti-corruption …. What is more, legislation can also take advantage of these chinks to fight corruption effectively.In Section II it is … United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) are used as benchmarks. In addition, the respective legal provisions …
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The Role of Exchange Rates in the Intertemporal Risk-Return Relation in International Economies
Bali, Turan G.; Wu, Liuren - 2005
This paper investigates the role of currency denomination in the the intertemporal risk-return relation among G7 countries. Similar to the findings of previous studies, our estimation also shows that the financial markets of the G7 countries are integrated. We obtain significant pricing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009440704
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The Aggregate Dynamics of Capital Structure and Macroeconomic Risk
Bhamra, Harjoat S.; Kuehn, Lars-Alexander; Strebulaev, … - 2008
We study the impact of time-varying macroeconomic conditions on optimal dynamic capital structure and the aggregate dynamics of firms in a cross-section. Our structural-equilibrium framework embeds a contingent-claim corporate financing model within a standard consumption-based asset- pricing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441273
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Modeling farmer participation to a revenue insurance scheme by means of Positive Mathematical Programming
Severini, Simone; Cortignani, Raffaele - 2011
European farmers face increasing income uncertainty and the debate is growing on the role of insurance schemes and of public support in this field. This debate is further stimulated by the perspective of introducing instruments to cope with risk also in the Common Agricultural Policy. Therefore,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442282
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A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Conservation Reserve Program Participation under Uncertainty
Isik, Murat - 2005
This paper develops theoretical and empirical models to understand how farmers formulate their participation strategies when deciding to enroll in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) under uncertainty. A theoretical model is employed to obtain the impacts of various factors on the optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442934