Mit Hilfe von Principal-Agent-Modellen werden Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten von Anreiz- und Vorgabesystemen als Instrumente des Controlling analysiert. Wenn ein Agent (z. B. Spartenleiter) mehr Informationen als der Principal (z. B. Unternehmensleitung) besitzt, muß eine derartige asymmetrische...

What happens if A wants to buy a good or service from B, but not all relevant characteristics can be fixed in a contract? This book gives a non-technical overview of various models dealing with this situation. Particular emphasis is put on the problem that the service includes various tasks and...

This paper aims to study the usefulness of applying tax arrears in failure prediction, when annual reports to calculate financial ratios are outdated. Three known classification methods from the failure prediction literature are applied to the whole population dataset from Estonia, incorporating...