Chapter 1 is joint work with Günter Franke, University of Konstanz, and Markus Herrmann, HSBC London, and addresses the question how collateralized debt obligation (CDO-) transactions are designed. An important issue is the information asymmetry about the quality of securitized debt between...

Purpose - Transnational entrepreneurship can be considered a new stream of research where migrant entrepreneurship and international business research fields intersect. The purpose of this paper is to offer a theoretical framework to address the following research question: How do transnational...

Our main goal is to investigate the question of which interest-rate options valuationmodels are better suited to support the management of interest-rate risk. Weuse the German market to test seven spot-rate and forward-rate models with oneand two factors for interest-rate warrants for the period...