Despite their impressive market success, investment certificates' benefits are puzzling from both a theoretical and an empirical viewpoint. Previous research analyzed portfoliotheoretical issues, mispricing patterns, and counterparty risk. This work highlights the impact of taxation, which has...

"Banken, Finanzierung und Unternehmensführung" sind die Themen, die im Zentrum des wissenschaftlichen Interesses und Werkes von Professor Dr. Karl Lohmann stehen. Ihm ist dieser Band als Festschrift zu seinem 65. Geburtstag gewidmet. Karl Lohmann studierte zunächst Mathematik, Physik und...

The deposit insurance reform presently under discussion in Belarus aims at attracting more private savers’ funds into the governmental directed economy. But the establishment of a deposit insurance system that does not precisely fit the country’s specific situation is prone to moral hazard...

This study explores companies' financing decisions from a new perspective, those of the bank advisers, who are deeply involved in the decision processes, but are nevertheless outsiders. In our survey, corporate advisers of a large German bank report their perception of clients' decisions. The...