This paper empirically analyzes a particular type of notes observed insecuritization transactions: combination notes. Combination notes are formedby combining parts of two or more tranches of securitization transactions,where one part usually consists of a share of the first loss piece. It is...

A large number of new ventures in Germany are undertaken due to government aid. Withthe introduction of the “Ich-AG” or “me-plc” in January 2003, this share has increasedstrongly. Entrepreneurship research so far has said very little about the success and the determinantsof success of...

Der Beitrag diskutiert die Anwendung des im Rahmen der Unternehmensbewertung häufigangewandten Gordon/Shapiro-Modells bei Vorliegen von Inflation sowie persönlichen Steuern.Gezeigt wird, dass sich steuerlich bedingtes und inflationsinduziertes Wachstum parallelim Kalkül erfassen lassen,...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), we analyze whethernecessity entrepreneurs differ from opportunity entrepreneurs in terms of self-employmentduration. Using univariate statistics, we find that opportunity entrepreneurs remain in selfemploymentlonger than necessity...

In diesem Beitrag zeigen wir, dass theoretische und technologische Aussagensysteme zweieigenständige Forschungszweige darstellen und damit die Notwendigkeit erwächst, eineeigene Methodologie technologischer Aussagensysteme zu entwerfen. Wir stellen ersteAnsatzpunkte vor, wie eine solche...

Life annuities provide a guaranteed income for the remainder of the recipi-ent’s lifetime, and therefore, annuitization presents an important option whenchoosing an adequate investment strategy for the retirement ages. While thereare numerous research articles studying annuities from a...

Zu den wichtigen Erscheinungsformen des Veränderungsprozesses an den Finanzmärktengehört das Wachstum der Märkte für den Transfer von Kreditrisiken (Credit Risk TransferCRT). Markante Instrumente des Kreditrisikotransfers sind einerseits strukturierte Produktewie die Asset-Backed Securities...

In recent years the market for asset backed securities (ABS) has shown a rapid growth. In an ABS transaction assets are first pooled and then securities backed by this pool are issued. In many cases, several tranches of securities differing with respect to their priority of payment are designed....

Recent events involving major insurance companies and insurance brokerage firms highlight substantial incentive problems in commercial and reinsurance markets where intermediation takes place. We show that in markets with informed as well as uninformed consumers and heterogeneous risk profiles...

Der folgende Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Problem der Modellselektion im Finite Mixture Partial Least Squares (FIMIX-PLS)-Ansatz. Dieser Ansatz, welcher der Methodengruppe der Mischverteilungsmodelle zuzuordnen ist, ermöglicht eine simultane Schätzung der Modellparameter bei gleichzeitiger...