In der Theorie der Unternehmensbewertung gibt es ein Problem, das die Literatur unter dem Etikett der Anschlussverzinsung diskutiert. Damit habe ich mich am 13. Februar 2009 in meiner Abschiedsvorlesung auseinandergesetzt. Das hier vorliegende Essay stellt eine überarbeitete Fassung dieser...

In oligopolistic industries that are unionised and may be affected by offshoring, falling offshoring costs have a moderating effect on trade unions. They will accept lower sector wages in order to discourage mobile forms from leaving the country. Since such wages are independent of the workers'...

The paper analyzes how international outsourcing affected individual employment security. The analysis is carried out at the micro-level, combining monthly spell data from household panel data and industry-level outsourcing measures. By utilizing micro-level data, problems such as aggregation...

In this article, we simulate the concentration process within the German dairy sector employing a sector?wide optimization model. As a result, we get cost minimizing structures of the dairy sector for various time horizons depending on varying levels of transportation costs. We show that the...

Etwas Erstaunliches ist geschehen. Otmar Issing, renommierter Chefvolkswirt (und zugleich Direktoriumsmitglied) der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB), hat jüngst (auf einer Konferenz in Zürich) mit einem Ausflug in die Wechselkurspolitik ein Tabu gebrochen, dessen geldpolitische Unantastbarkeit...

Deploying data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) we analyze the variability of individual earnings and equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old German Laender in order to determine their importance...

The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...

Business exit has implications for a firm's corporate strategy. Two types of exit events are distinguished: those that involve strategic change and those that are status quo-preserving. This study investigates the impact of CEO turnover and succession on strategic versus status quo-preserving...