The increasing importance of renewable energy, especially solar and wind power, has led to new forces in the formation of electricity prices. Hence, this paper introduces an econometric model for the hourly time series of electricity prices of the European Power Exchange (EPEX) which...

<title>Abstract</title> Entities reporting under IFRSs are required to determine a value in use in accordance with IAS 36: Impairment of Assets. The value in use is the present value of the expected future cash flows. Appendix A to the standard gives guidance on how to apply the DCF calculus in the context of...

Valuation of firms is generally based on the WACC approach which typically neglects personal income taxes. This paper extends this approach to incorporate personal income taxes and develop a generalized valuation formula which can be used for any taxation system. The approach is illustrated for...

This paper extends the option pricing equations of Black and Scholes [1973. Journal of Political Economy 81, 637–654], Jarrow and Madan [1997. European Finance Review 1, 15–30] and Husmann and Stephan [2007. Journal of Futures Markets 27, 961–979]. In particular, we show that the length of...

Die Bewertung von Optionen erfolgt traditionell unter der vereinfachenden Annahme, dass die Kapitalmärkte vollständig sind. Unter dieser Bedingung können Finanztitel durch Duplikation ihrer Cashflows mit einem Portfolio aus bereits am Kapitalmarkt gehandelten Finanztiteln bewertetet werden....