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Laux, Volker - 2003

This paper studies a setting in which a risk averse agent must be motivated to work on two tasks: he (1) evaluates a new project and, if adopted, (2) manages it. While a performance measure which is informative of an agent´s action is typically valuable because it can be used to improve the...

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Structural positions and risk budgeting: Quantifying the impact of structural positions and deriving implications for active portfolio management

Herold, Ulf; Maurer, Raimond - 2001

Structural positions are very common in investment practice. A structural position is defined as a permanent overweighting of a riskier asset class relative to a prespecified benchmark portfolio. The most prominent example for a structural position is the equity bias in a balanced fund that...

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The long term impact of microfinance on income, wages and the sectoral distribution of economic activity

Tschach, Ingo E. - 2003

This paper analyses the long-term effects of improved small-scale lending, often provided by microfinance institutions set up with the support of development aid. The analysis shows that some common assumptions about microfinance are not true at all: First, it shows that the impact on income...

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Finanzierungstheorie: Ein selektiver Überblick

Krahnen, Jan Pieter - 1998

selektive Überblick konzentriert sich auf zentrale Aspekte der Theorie und Empirie der Managementkontrolle bei asymmetrischer …

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Internationale Rechnungslegungsnormen und Neue Institutionenökonomik

Wüstemann, Jens - 1999

eine komparative Rechnungslegungstheorie. Eine Besinnung auf die ökonomische Theorie ist – auch ausgelöst durch die … Prägung durch die ökonomische Theorie – und nicht vornehmlich durch die Anwender – erhielt.3 Es ist das Ziel des Aufsatzes …, einen Beitrag zu einer institutionenökonomischen Theorie der Rechnungslegung zum Zweck der Bestimmung von …

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Avoiding the rating bounce: Why rating agencies are slow to react to new information

Löffler, Gunter - 2002

Rating agencies state that they take a rating action only when it is unlikely to be reversed shortly afterwards. Based on a formal representation of the rating process, I show that such a policy provides a good explanation for the empirical evidence: Rating changes occur relatively seldom,...

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Integrated asset liability modelling for property casuality insurance: A portfolio theoretical approach

Dus, Ivica; Maurer, Raimond - 2001

theory and recognizes the stochastic nature of and the interaction between the underwriting and investment income of the …

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Tackling boundary effects in nonparametric estimation of intra-day liquidity measures

Grammig, Joachim; Hujer, Reinhard; Kokot, Stefan - 2001

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Path Dependence, Corporate Governance and Complementarity

Schmidt, Reinhard H.; Spindler, Gerald - 2000

In a series of recent papers, Mark Roe and Lucian Bebchuk have developed further the concept of path dependence, combined it with concepts of evolution and used it to challenge the wide-spread view that the corporate governance systems of the major advanced economies are likely to converge...

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Shareholder vs. Stakeholder: Ökonomische Fragestellungen

Schmidt, Reinhard H.; Weiß, Marco - 2003

Stakeholder berücksichtigt, auf der anderen Seite - werden geschildert und mit den Mitteln der ökonomischen Theorie bewertet …

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