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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....
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Imperfect competition in product markets and labor markets, general equilibrium and unemployment
Schniewind, Achim - 2000
In this thesis it is analyzed if promoting product market competition can help to to fight unemployment in Europe. We have used a general equilibrium model in order to study how reducing mark-ups and increasing productivity in one sector affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given...
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Decision Rules, Transparency and Central Banks
Köster, Bernhard Johannes - 2011
The trade-off between price stability and output stabilization is in the centre of monetary policy-making. This trade-off enters many macroeconomic models as the central bank is assumed to minimize some loss function consisting of inflation deviations and output deviations from some specific...
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A semantic system for stakeholder-sensitive planning and design of sustainable civil infrastructure systems
Mostafa, Mostafa A. - 2011
There has been an increasing demand for involving stakeholders in the development of sustainable civil infrastructure systems. It has been acknowledged that one key element of a project is stakeholder involvement. As such, failure to successfully involve the stakeholders of an infrastructure...
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Controlling a distribution of heterogeneous agents
Nuño Barrau, Galo; Moll, Benjamin - 2015
Este artículo analiza el problema de un planificador benevolente que desea controlar una población de agentes heterogéneos sujetos a perturbaciones idiosincrásticas. Esto es equivalente a un problema de control determinista en el que la variable de estado pertinente es la distribución de...
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Einfluss von Overconfidence und Optimismus von Finanzvorständen auf ihre Kapitalstrukturentscheidungen
Kasch, Michael Georg - 2008
Kapitalstruktur wählen. Allerdings ist die Kapitalstrukturtheorie trotz intensiver Forschung über fast fünf Jahrzehnte immer noch … Manager im Detail dabei welchen Einfluss auf die Entscheidungen für die Kapitalstruktur haben, ist bisher allerdings empirisch … der Kapitalstruktur eine relevante Rolle spielen. Im Speziellen kann durch die Berücksichtigung der Overconfidence des …
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Three Essays on Structural Credit Risk Modelling
Zahariev, Radoslav - 2010
Kapitalstruktur, die dynamische Steuerung des Unternehmensrisikos und die nicht normale Verteilung der Firmenrendite. Im zweiten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471598
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The Twin Agency Problems in Corporate Finance - On the basis of Stulz's theory
Du, Juan - 2009
Financial globalization is an inherent feature of today’s economies. But the positive impact of financial globalization has been limited and some puzzling evidence has been found recently. To explain these puzzles, Stulz argued that finance is critically affected by Twin Agency Problems:...
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Determinants of capital structure for A-REITs
Chikolwa, Bwembya - 2009
Using panel data methodology, the determinants of capital structure in 34 Australia listed property trusts (A-REITs) are investigated for the period 2003-2008. Empirical results reveal that profitability, growth opportunity, and operational risk are negatively related to leverage while size is...
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