Since years, incentives for the management have become a standard upon acquisitions of companies by Private Equity Investors - so-called Buy-Outs. However, until this date there are no empirical studies available on the arrangements of management participations and potential conflicts of...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit greift der Verfasser eine besonders herausgehobene und viel diskutierte Ausprägung der Bankregulierung auf, nämlich die Eigenkapitalnormen, und stellt diesen Aspekt in den weiteren Kontext politökonomischer Argumentation. -- Burghofs Erklärungsansätze für die...

Venture projects are fraught with exogenous market risk and endogenous agency risk. We apply a real options perspective to analyze the investment decision of the venture capitalist (VC) in this set-up. The solutions presented are conflictive: the VC reduces his exposure to exogenous risk by...