Für eine fundierte Anlageentscheidung ist die Messung und Beurteilung der erzielten Ergebnisse unabdingbar. Die Dimensionen Rendite und Risiko sind daher immer gemeinsam zu betrachten, um Fehlallokationen zu vermeiden. Jens Daum untersucht die zur Verfügung stehenden Instrumente der...

DIE METHODISCHE GRUNDLEGUNG -- AUSGANGSBASIS: DIE BESTEHENDE ZINSSTRUKTURKURVE -- DIE ÄLTEREN THEORIEN ZUR ZINSSTRUKTUR -- DIE GRUNDMODELLE DER ZINSSTRUKTUR -- DIE DETERMINISTISCHEN FAKTOREN ZUR ZINSSTRUKTUR -- DIE SUBSTITUTIVEN ARBITRAGEPROZESSE ZUR ZINSSTRUKTUR -- DIE STOCHASTISCHEN...

The thesis of Kristina Reimer provides a comprehensive analysis of asymmetric cost behavior (also known as cost stickiness) by discussing its origin and development in the theoretical and empirical research from the 1920s of the past century up until today. Further, using an empirical approach,...

Demographic trends put a burden on EU pension provision. As the sustainability of pension systems is addressed by current pension reforms, lower benefit levels are projected. In this scenario, households may want to consider supplementing their public pension income. As their own residence is on...

Christoph Michael Hindermann uses a statistical approach to analyze the impact of economic freedom on state legitimacy. Based on multiple regression models, the author not only extracts the determinants of legitimacy but also shows that rule of law is the most important area of economic freedom...

The extensive monetary policy of central banks during the Great Recession has re-newed the interest in the relation between (possibly) non-neutral money and wealth and income inequality. In this work, a dynamic general equilibrium model approach is used to study the effects of an inflation rate...

Basierend auf der Erkenntnis, dass Einwohner eine bedeutende Zielgruppe im Rahmen der Markenführung von Städten sind, entwickelt Ayla Rößler ein Modell zur internen, identitätsbasierten Markenführung von Städten. Es wird untersucht, wie Einwohner als wichtige interne Zielgruppe einer...

Fabian Schnell develops a model indicating that by keeping real interest rates too low, monetary policy can distort the allocation of resources across firms and potentially delay economic recovery after a recession. This is a new channel of monetary policy that is especially relevant in view of...

Lukas Heim evaluates the performance of a price-level targeting rule compared to that of a standard inflation targeting rule. The comparison is based on a medium-scale DSGE model which has been estimated based on state-of-the-art Bayesian methods. The model for the Swiss economy is an expanded...