Electronic Commerce environments increasingly witness a conflict on the subject of e-privacy: While marketers want to maximize their customer knowledge and grasp the identity of their online users, consumers often want to stay anonymous and not reveal private information. The conflict suggests...

Information costs and regulatory barriers are the main distinguishing features of international financial markets as compared to national financial markets. This paper presents a simple model of the impact of these factors on banks' cross-border activities and provides empirical evidence. Our...

Aus welchen Gründen setzen Unternehmen (Währungs-)Derivate ein? Der Autor geht dieser Frage nach, indem er zunächst verschiedene Theorien zur Rechtfertigung des unternehmerischen Einsatzes von Derivaten zu Risikomanagementzwecken zusammenfaßt, welche die grundsätzliche Redundanz von...