Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, ob und auf welche Weise für Unternehmen mit Pensionsrückstellungen, Verbindlichkeiten aus Lieferungen und Leistungen und andere Passivpositionen eine Bewertungstheorie in der Tradition des Discounted Cashflows angewendet werden...

In diesem Papier wird untersucht, welche Auswirkungen die Verfügbarkeit vonInfrastruktur auf die unternehmerische Investitionsentscheidung hat. Dabei ist unterstellt,dass Infrastruktur zum einen Input in der Produktionsfunktion ist und zumanderen die Höhe der Anpassungskosten beeinflusst. Als...

In recent years layoffs have increasingly become the focus of public attention. So far, however, there has been no representative study for Germany of how far and under what conditions layoffs are acceted by the population - in other wordss by people who are not immediately affected. [...]

Investment policy is a central issue in foundations. The capital stock of a foundationand its long-term retention are prerequisites of a foundation’s perpetuity and independence. Afoundation’s goals can only be reached with the funds generated by the foundation’s investmentmanagement.[...]

Der Beitrag untersucht die betrieblichen Determinanten von Teilzeitbeschäftigung, Mini- und Midi-Jobs. Aus theoretischer Perspektive könnten alle drei Beschäftigungsformen als Instrument der Anpassungsflexibilität bei Nachfrageschocks genutzt werden. Die empirische Analyse zeigt, dass aber...

This paper presents a survey on panel data methods in which I emphasize new developments. In particular, linear multilevel models with a new variant are discussed. Furthermore, non linar, nonparametric and semiparametric models are analyzed. In contrast to linear models there do not exist...

We show that the power of the KPSS-test against inte-gration, as measured by divergence rates of the test statistic underthe alternative, remains the same when residuals from an OLS-regression rather than true observations are used.[...]

The EU Directive 2003/87/EC for the introduction of a European emission trading system has leftthe task of allocating the emission allowances mainly to the member states. In Germany the details of theallocation method are laid down in the Allocation Act (ZuG 2007). One central element of the...

Price comparison services are being used by more and more internet users worldwide tocompare prices of (online-)suppliers. The characteristics of price comparison services differinternationally. Not only are they different in the reference to their scope of work. Also with regard tothe technical...

We study the relationship between foreign exchange trading activity and volatility on theUSD/EUR foreign exchange market on the basis of a unique data set around the events of09/11/2001. We find that volatility and bid-ask spreads are by far larger at that time, but theshock is not persistent....