Ziel dieses Lehrtextes ist es, die Elemente einer betriebswirtschaftlich orientierten Entscheidungslehre weiter zu homogenisieren, d.h., die gemeinsamen Strukturen ihrer Modelle und deren Lösungsprinzipien zu verdeutlichen. Nach einigen grundlegenden Überlegungen zu deterministischen...

Donaldson reconceptualises the organisation as a portfolio with a number of different causes of performance, which vary over time. Without a performance crisis it is likely that needed organisational changes will not be forthcoming

Asset owners (principals) typically do not manage their own investments and leave this job to delegated managers (agents). What is best for the asset owner, however, is usually not best for the fund manager. Additional agency conflicts arise when the asset owner does not know the quality and...

The tendency of humans to shy away from using algorithms - even when algorithms observably outperform their human counterpart - has been referred to as algorithm aversion. We conduct an experiment to test for algorithm aversion in financial decision making. Participants acting as investors can...

This paper is about the corporate structure, the organizational structure, and the financial structure of firms, and how they relate to each other. We show that separation of ownership and control may arise as a response to overload costs, although it involves agency costs, and that...

In the presence of moral hazard and costly information acquisition, we show that absolute performance pay and benchmarking naturally arise as part of the contract between investors and active managers. The commonality in compensation incentives across funds, however, gives rise to externalities....