Given recent history it may be necessary to recall that the so-called Great Recession we have been witnessing for more than five years now was, first and foremost, a crisis of financial markets. One reason for rising debt levels at the outset of the crisis have been massive government...

In January 2009, the law on the reform of the inheritance tax and valuation law (German) came into force. As a result, the valuation of shares in non-listed corporations was fundamentally changed. The paper compares and analyzes different enterprise values through the application of different...

Bei der Anomaliediskussion stehen zwei Erklärungsansätze diametral gegenüber. Einerseits können Marktineffizienzen zu den beobachteten Renditemustern führen. Andererseits besteht die Möglichkeit, dass Risikofaktoren die Renditegenerierung bestimmen. Allerdings vernachlässigt die...

We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see that those who descended from Palestinian refugees do...