Theoretical Foundation and Previous Research Results -- Corporate Disclosures of Mid-Caps and Market Risk Indicators -- Corporate Disclosures and the Decision-Making-Process of Financial Investors -- Synthesis of Developed Models.

Introduction to financial decision making -- An Overview of multiple criteria decision aid.- Banking management -- Credit Scoring -- Portfolio management.- Other applications of multi criteria analysis in finance -- Conclusions and future perspectives.

Der Begriff Risiko ist heutzutage durch politische Bewegungen wie KonTraG und Basel II sowie spektakuläre Unternehmenszusammenbrüche in aller Munde. Dabei wird immer wieder darauf hingewiesen, dass die Unternehmen ganzheitliche integrierte Risikomanagement- und controllingsysteme installieren...

We propose procedures for estimating the time-dependent transition matrices for the general class of finite nonhomogeneous continuous-time semi-Markov processes. We prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions for the system of Volterra integral equations defining the transition matrices,...