To explain the strategic dimension in pricing options, it will be helpful to go back to the heart of the idea behind the concept of an option: options open up the possibility to postpone current decisions to a future point of time. Because of this flexibility additional information and new...

Basel II changes risk management in banks strongly. Internal rating procedures would lead one to expect that banks are changing over to active risk control. But, if risk management is no longer a simple "game against nature", if all agents involved are active players then a shift from a...

The mainstream model of option pricing is based on an exogenously given process of price movements. The implication of this assumption is that price movements are not affected by actions of market participants. However, if we assume that there are indeed impacts on the price movements it no...

In this paper we challenge basic results of signaling models. In our banking model each project of a borrower is described by a continuous density of outcomes. Different density functions are classified according to second stochastisch dominance. Combining these features we find that in a...

In this paper an extension of the well-known binomial approach to option pricing is presented. The classical question is: What is the price of an option on the risky asset? The traditional answer is obtained with the help of a replicating portfolio by ruling out arbitrage. Instead a two-person...

Wirtschaftspolitiken bei asymmetrischer Information als Resultat der 'incentive' Struktur einer Politikinstanz; eine Steuerung der Ökonomie durch 'pooling equilibria' oder 'separating equilibria' Spieltheoretische Methodik fand in den letzten Jahren verstärkt Eingang in der...

Bei der Vergabe und Abwicklung subventionspolitischer Darlehen sind die ausführenden Kreditinstitute häufig mit komplexer Unsicherheit konfrontiert: Diese besteht zum einen hinsichtlich des Schuldnerverhaltens, da dem Kreditgeber nicht immer bekannt ist, mit welchem Typ von Kreditnehmer zu...