Das Regelwerk Basel II konnte die Finanzkrise nicht verhindern. Ist ein Basel III notwendig? Franz-Christoph Zeitler, Deutsche Bundesbank, macht in seinem Beitrag deutlich, dass entgegen einem in der Öffentlichkeit weit verbreitetem Eindruck auf internationaler und europäischer Ebene bereits...

In this article it is argued that overregulation in the German banking industry is driven by deficient incentives. One important piece in this picture is the rule that resources used by the supervision authority are financed, basically, through an industry tax. Overregulation arises in such a...

Several studies have emphasized a slow price adjustment to reported insider trades for Germany. The results presented in this paper, though, show that this is mainly caused by a subset of high arbitrage risk stocks. In fact, the abnormal return difference between the quintiles of stocks with...

We analyze the risk, return and cash flow characteristics of infrastructure investments by using a unique dataset of deals done by private equity-like investment funds. We show that infrastructure deals have a performance that is higher than that of non-infrastructure deals, despite the lower...

This highly accessible book brings together the insights of leading academics and researchers to promote a better understanding of the role of private equity providers in the development of growth-oriented start-ups and the management of growth processes.

In this paper, we analyze the effect of the conversion price of CoCo bonds on equity holders' incentives. First, we use an option-pricing context to show that CoCo bonds can magnify equity holders' incentives to increase the riskiness of assets and decrease incentives to raise new equity in a...

We examine the dynamics and the drivers of market liquidity during the financial crisis, using a unique volume-weighted spread measure. According to the literature we find that market liquidity is impaired when stock markets decline, implying a positive relation between market and liquidity...

We examine the dynamics and the drivers of market liquidity during the financial crisis, using a unique volume-weighted spread measure. According to the literature we find that market liquidity is impaired when stock markets decline, implying a positive relation between market and liquidity...

Der Beitrag beschreibt die Entwicklung des Steuereinflusses in der objektivierten Unternehmensbewertung, also einem Aspekt, dessen Berücksichtigung in Deutschland maßgeblich auf das Engagement von Franz W. Wagner zurückgeht. In dem Jahrzehnt, seit das IDW der Forderung des Jubilars nach einer...