In dieser Arbeit setzen wir uns mit den Auswirkungen von Risikobeschränkungen auf das optimale Verhalten eines Investors auseinander, welcher versucht, den erwarteten Endnutzen zu einem festgelegten Zeitpunkt zu maximieren. Dazu kann er ein vorgegebenes Anfangsvermögen in einem Markt...

In dieser Arbeit werden in vier Kapiteln vier Themen der Weltwirtschaft behandelt: (1) Weshalb konzentrieren sich intra-industrieller Handel und intra-industrielle Investitionen auf Industrieländer? (2) Wieso ist es für ein multinationales Unternehmen wichtig, dauerhaft Technologieführer zu...

The objective of this paper is to determine how relative market and credit risk changes among European sectors during times of extreme market fluctuations. Ten sectors comprising the S&P Euro index are compared prior to and during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Market risk is measured using...

The study focuses on tariff-linked (or commodity-linked) agreements entered into between a power utility and commodity producers. The main purpose of these types of agreements is to link electricity tariff payable by commodity producers to the price of the commodity produced thereby transferring...

Under a one factor model, this paperwork estimates the impacts of the size of firms’ competitors in the insurance industry on the market risk level, measured by equity and asset beta, of 7 listed companies in this category. This study identified that the risk dispersion level in this sample...

Under a one factor model, this paperwork estimates the impacts of the size of firms’ competitors in the insurance industry on the market risk level, measured by equity and asset beta, of 7 listed companies in this category. This study identified that the risk dispersion level in this sample...

Recent and presumable future developments tend to increase the risk associated with farming activities. This causes an increasing importance of risk management. Farmers have a wide variety of possibilities to influence the risk exposure of their operations. Among them are the choice of the...