This discussion paper aims at describing the risk-adjusted return of European sustainable and conventional investment portfolios and comparing them to determine whether sustainable investment portfolios generate superior risk-adjusted returns. The paper is based on the bachelor thesis of Julius...

Exploring Markets" is planned as a paper series discussing niche markets with interesting characteristics. The paper on hand focuses on the secondary market of the trading card game "Magic the Gathering", in which players play against each other with decks composed of cards they have collected....

The term "big data" has become an indispensable part of the corporate landscape. It refers to large volumes of data that originate from a wide variety of data sources (e.g., social media, assistance programs, surveillance cam-eras, or loyalty cards). Especially in recent years, the mass of data...

The current interest rate level provides hardly any returns on financial investments. Conversely, it offers debtors the opportunity to secure very favorable conditions for borrowing. Accordingly, the aim of this research is to show the effects of low interest rates on the demand behavior of...

The starting point of this paper is the ongoing discussion among academics and practitioners on how to define qualityin university teaching. The different perspectives of the Humboldtian model of higher education, the fields of university didactics and quality management are brought together in...

This paper examines the key elements of the quantitative content analysis developed by the scientist Philip Mayring as a method of data evaluation. First, the circular research process is presented to explain the application of this method for scientific interviews in student theses. The content...

The years following the 2008 financial crisis have been characterized by the emergence of new financial service providers, so-called fintech. The term is defined and understood differently in the literature. There is an agreement that fintech is composed of the words "financial" and...

Professional football generates billions in revenue in Germany alone. After fifteen consecutive revenue records, the Covid 19 pandemic is leading to revenue declines in the Bundesliga. Football fans have played a major role in these declines. They no longer go to the football stadiums week after...

The current phase of low interest rates poses major challenges for banks. A continuous decline in the interest result, which is so important for the profitability of banks, has been observed for years, as it is becoming in-creasingly difficult for banks to generate sufficient income from the...

The cross-industry megatrend of digitization is changing the understanding of banking. Innovative technologies such as Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence or Cloud Computing are penetrating the financial industry at a rapid pace and are forcing traditional banks to adapt. Modern...