Das Ziel dieser Arbeit besteht darin, die betriebswirtschaftlichen Anforderungen an ein Risikomanagement darzustellen und mit den nationalen und internationalen (teilweise gesetzlichen) Anforderungen sowie Prüfungsstandards zu vergleichen. Dabei ist zu untersuchen, ob bereits mit der...

Das vorliegende Working Paper beinhaltet Vortragsmanuskripte zu drei Dissertationsprojekten, die in den Jahren 2002 und 2003 am Lehrstuhl erfolgreich abgeschlossen wurden. Es handelt sich dabei um die Arbeit von Dr. Klinke zum Finanzcontrolling in mittelständischen Bauunternehmen mit...

High oil prices are normally expected to stimulate exploration and the development of new oil and gas fields. But over the last few years, financial analysts have focused strongly on shortterm accounting return (RoACE) for benchmarking and valuation, and this has led to high capital discipline...

The objective of this paper is to reflect on the consequences of the current economic and financial crisis on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a concept of great importance nowadays. The core approach is the possible link between CSR and the crisis, if both elements can be combined. After...

Das vorliegende Working Paper beinhaltet Vortragsmanuskripte zu drei Dissertationsprojekten, die in den Jahren 2002 und 2003 am Lehrstuhl erfolgreich abgeschlossen wurden. Es handelt sich dabei um die Arbeit von Dr. Klinke zum Finanzcontrolling in mittelständischen Bauunternehmen mit...

We review a large number of empirical studies on Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) pricing. We distinguish between laboratory experiments, field experiments, survey experiments and case studies. Based on this survey we identify the following two gaps in the recently flourishing literature on PWYW...

The internal rate of return (IRR) is often used by managers and practitioners for investment decisions. Unfortunately, it has serious flaws: among others, (i) multiple real-valued IRRs may arise, (ii) complex-valued IRRs may arise, (iii) the IRR is, in general, incompatible with the net present...

This paper contains the statistics of the Equity Premium or Market Risk Premium (MRP) used in 2011 for 56 countries. We got answers for 85 countries, but we only report the results for 56 countries with more than 6 answers. Most previous surveys have been interested in the Expected MRP, but this...

It only took an apple to fall on the head of Newton and what happened is history. Even though the book has nothing to do with physics we feel research effects business across the world as gravity affects life matter. Gravity is a key force behind the existence of life on earth, same way...

This paper contains the statistics of the Equity Premium or Market Risk Premium (MRP) used in 2011 for 56 countries. We got answers for 85 countries, but we only report the results for 56 countries with more than 6 answers.Most previous surveys have been interested in the Expected MRP, but this...