Incentive effects of performance-based compensation schemes for management may be weakened or biased by macroeconomic influences on remuneration. These influences can be seen as reflecting luck from the CEO's perspective. In this chapter we present a model for how to avoid compensating CEO for...

In some recent papers, such as Elliott & van der Hoek, Hu & Öksendal, a fractional Black-Scholes model have been proposed as an improvement of the classical Black-Scholes model. Common to these fractional Black-Scholes models, is that the driving Brownian motion is replaced by a fractional...

Jeder wirtschaftlich Interessierte hat schon einmal von Optionen und Optionsscheinen gehört. Was Optionen und Optionsscheine genau sind und wie sie funktionieren, das wissen allerdings nur wenige. Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Einblick in die Funktions- und Wirkungsweise dieser...

Seit nunmehr drei Jahrzehnten befindet sich die Zeitungsbranche in einem tiefgreifenden Strukturwandel, der sich durch die digitale Transformation weiter intensivieren wird. Die Geschäftsmodelle der Zeitungsverlage gehören dabei neben der Branchen- und Unternehmensorganisation ebenso zu den...

While risk selection within the German public health insurance system has received considerable attention, risk selection between public and private health insurers has largely been ignored. This is surprising since - given the institutional structure - risk selection between systems is likely...

This paper explores the relationship between risk attitude and asset diversification in household portfolios. We first examine the impact of manifested risk aversion on the total number of distinct assets held in a portfolio (naive diversification). The second part of the paper focuses on a more...

With banking sectors worldwide still suffering from the effects of the financial crisis, public discussion of plans to place toxic assets in one or more bad banks has gained steam in recent weeks. The following paper presents a plan how governments can efficiently relieve ailing banks from toxic...