Excessive risk-taking in the banking industry has led to the default of firms and to increased systemic risks as demonstrated during the previous financial crisis. The causes of this excessive risk taking are numerous and complex. However, it is now consensus that inappropriate remuneration...

Ein Grund für die Kostenexplosion in der Beamtenversorgung liegt in dem verstärkten Trend zur Frühpensionierung. Um diesem Trend entgegenzuwirken, wurde analog zu der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung der so genannte Versorgungsabschlag eingeführt. Bei Eintritt in den Ruhestand vor Erreichen...

Mit dem angedachten Solvabilitätssystem Solvency II werden Versicherer das erforderliche Solvenzkapital anhand ihrer tatsächlichen Risikosituation ermitteln müssen. Um diese zu bestimmen und zu quantifizieren, ist die Berücksichtigung der Abhängigkeiten zwischen den Risiken verschiedener...

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, there is a controversial discussion in Germany, whether the state should be liable for such risks like terrorism risks that are generally considered as 'not insurable'. As a result of the events of September 11, the Extremus AG which offers insurance...

This study aims to investigate entrepreneurial intention among international business students in Viet Nam as it is on the way to approve The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The theory of planned behavior (TPB) (Ajzen, 1991) is used to assess the determinants of entrepreneurial intention of...

This study investigates the impact of demographic factors, prior exposure to self-employment and family background on entrepreneurial intention of Vietnamese business students. Three hundred seventy-two undergraduate and post-graduate business students from three universities in Ho Chi Minh City...

This is the first study to use the self-organisation (Kohonen) map technique, an artificial neural network based on a non-supervised learning algorithm, to categorise Vietnamese banks into super-class groups. Drawing on unbalanced yearly data from 2008 to 2017, this study identifies two...

This paper examines the connectedness between Bitcoin and commodity volatilities, including oil, wheat, and corn, during the period Oct. 2013-Jun. 2018, using time- and frequency-domain frameworks. The time-domain framework's results show that the connectedness is 23.49%, indicating a low level...

Asynchronous trading hours between the markets of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) and their benchmarks not only make it difficult to apply a full replication strategy but also make the creation/redemption process ineffective and consequently distress the performance of international ETFs. Despite...

This study investigates the impact of COVID-19 exposure on corporate cash holdings using firm data across sixteen developing and developed economies. The results show that firms reserve more cash when their exposure to COVID-19 increases. We also find a cash burn effect during the COVID-19...