Vor dem Hintergrund einer verstärkten Tätigkeit von spezialisierten Investmentbanken bietet dieses erste Grundlagenwerk auf dem deutschen Markt eine aktuelle, anwendungsorientierte und fundierte Darstellung von Methoden und Instrumenten des Investment Banking. Die Funktionsweisen der...

Empirical and experimental papers find that high-powered incentives may reduce performance rather than improve it; a phenomenon referred to as "choking under pressure". We show that competition for high ability workers nevertheless leads firms to offer high bonus payments, thereby deliberately...

Even though the sector of Non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFI) or shadow banks represent a large part of the contemporary financial system, these institutions received almost no attention in macroeconomic studies so far. Their presence has significant influence on the conduct of monetary...