Empirische Untersuchungen belegen einen mittlerweile auch in Deutschland erhöhten Verbreitungsgrad der Due Diligence bei Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). Differenziert wird bei den Untersuchungen zwischen einzelnen Teilreviews (Financial, Tax, Legal etc.) allerdings wurden bislang keine breiten...

Die Dynamik und Komplexität unternehmerischen Geschehens hat die Anzahl der Risiken erhöht und auch ihre Prognostizierbarkeit weiter beeinträchtigt. Davon sind im besonderen Maße Auftragsfertiger betroffen. Gerade Bauunternehmen haben in den vergangenen Jahren in erheblichem Umfang...

The economy is in a state of transformation into a new system, and it is quite realistic that economic entities will be under the influence of certain risky moments. The process of risk analysis and management should be considered by an enterprise as an integral part of enterprise management in...

The objective is to study the use of non-translation invariant risk measures within the equal risk pricing (ERP) methodology for the valuation of financial derivatives. The ability to move beyond the class of convex risk measures considered in several prior studies provides more flexibility...

In this study we examine the volatility-adjusted 60/40 rule at the individual company level. We document that strong diversification benefits exist over the long-term, and that both the equity and corporate bonds exhibit positive expected drifts. For our sample of 30 large-cap companies, given...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the issue of portfolio optimization. Optimization consists of minimizing the risk for a given rate of return or achieving a bigger return for a given level of risk. We use historical data from the Bank of Greece to calculate the net return and the standard...