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Analysis of the Capital Structure of German Companies with the SSA and SVM
Pohlmann, Tim Fabien - 2007
This thesis presents and compares the performance of two recently developed classification methods namely the Spatial Stagewise Aggregation procedure and Support Vector Machines. Both techniques are convenient for the application to corporate bankruptcy analysis, in terms of calculation of...
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The Economics of Corporate Bankruptcy Law
Wohlschlegel, Ansgar - 2002
Apart from an extensive survey of the literature on the economics of corporate bankruptcy law, this thesis contains three own contributions: First, a model is presented where a firm's manager acquires some private information about whether a firm should be liquidated or stay in business....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476240
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Changes in Occupational Demand Structure and their Impact on Individual Wages
Fedorets, Alexandra - 2011
This paper estimates wage losses arising due to changes in the structure of demand for occupations. The data on occupational changes made for the sake of adjustment to the changes in the demand structure come from the German reunification of 1990. Endogenous occupational changes are instrumented...
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Essays on the distributional impacts of government
Siminski, Peter, Economics, Australian School of … - 2008
This thesis consists of three independent essays, unified by the common theme of the distributional impacts of government.The first paper estimates the price elasticity of demand for pharmaceuticals amongst high-income older people in Australia. It exploits a natural experiment by which some...
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Offene und geschlossene Immobilienfonds - ein Vergleich
Stiefel, Sandra; Diringer, Arnd; Grau, Michael - 2010
Begrifflichkeiten und rechtliche Grundlagen über offene und geschlossene Immobilienfonds.Beim Vergleich soll …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460938
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Real Estate Asset Allocation auf Basis des Black-Litterman-Ansatzes. Ein Modell zur gleichgewichtsorientierten Portfoliodiversifikation an zyklischen Immobilienm?rkten
Zankl, Stephan - 2009
Kern der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Entwicklung eines Black-Litterman-Modells zur Allokation von Immobilienportfolios. Motiviert durch die global zunehmende Bedeutung des Immobilien-Portfoliomanagements und die begrenzte Eignung der Markowitz?schen Portfolio-Selektionstheorie in der Praxis wird...
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An empirical analysis of the information efficiency of Australian equity markets
Hatemi-J, Abdulnasser; Morgan, Bryan - 2009
Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the Australian equity market is informationally efficient in the semi-strong form with regard to interest rates and the exchange rate shocks during the period 1994-2006. Design/methodology/approach – There is evidence...
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Ländliche Kreditmärkte in Transformationsländern : Marktversagen und die Rolle formaler und informeller Institutionen in Polen und der Slowakei
Anja Wiebusch - 2005
) Auf der Mikroebene findet man in beiden Ländern eine signifikante Kreditrationierung, allerdings nur für subventionierte … Kredite, so dass auf der Makroebene nicht von einer Kreditrationierung im Sinne von Stiglitz/Weiss gesprochen werden kann. (iv … gleichzeitiger Kreditrationierung auf Mikroebene festgestellt werden. Dies korrespondiert zu den theoretischen Überlegungen von De …
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The impact of the 2007-09 credit crunch on the funding of public sector infrastructure in the UK
Bailey, Stephen J.; Asenova, Darinka - 2009
The 2007-09 credit crunch has not only created problems for the UK’s public finances in meeting the costs of bailing out commercial banks and dealing with recession but also for providing better public services. This paper analyses the causes of the credit crunch, government policies to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435323
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Risk Management in Private Finance Initiative Projects
Asenova, Darinka - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435324