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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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Beschaffung, Handel und Konsum illegaler Drogen im Strafvollzug - Eine Situationsanalyse -
Filter, Ilona - 2010
Drug consumption is a voluntary decision based on preexisting situational contexts, social events, personal traits and cultural circumstances. Because of this, drug consumption is not pathological but rather normal and ubiquitous. It is only as a result of persecution by the authorities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468267
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467404
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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:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009452443
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The Case for Taxing Consumption
Lang, Joachim - 1990
This article deals with fundamental and topical problems of taxation policy, viewing the subject from both a German and an international perspective. Traditional income tax regimes in developed countries with their progressive tax rates are still based upon the redistributive philosophy which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441794
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DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN CAPITAL AS A TOOL FOR IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY OF AGRICULTURAL SECTOR – CASE OF SERBIA
Zubovic, Jovan; Domazet, Ivana; Stosic, Ivan - 2009
New trends in global economy require greater capacity of the agricultural workforce. In order improve agricultural productivity it is needed to increase the level of human capital of the agrarian population. Human capital is accumulatedknowledge, created in the long term process of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445915
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Micro Gains From Micro Reform
Quiggin, John - 1998
Large estimates of the benefits of microeconomic reform have been put forward in official studies. By contrast, Quiggin …. Overstated claims about the benefits of microeconomic reform have distorted Australia's economic priorities and encouraged an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447973
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Insurance, Pooling, and Resistance to Reform : the Case of Individual Uncertainty
Friehe, Tim - 2008
contrast two insurance regimes; the status quo of mandated pooling of all risk types and the reform proposal being insurance … with risk-type separation over time, using Bayesian updating. Most individuals would benefit from the reform since their … risk type is better than the average but the reform does not occur due to individual uncertainty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471848