In a normative theory of decision making in the firm, limited cognitive capabilities of decision makers can be taken into account in different ways. If individual decision making alone is being considered, the concept of rationality must be defined in such a way that it is acceptable from the...

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This paper analyzes the loss allocation to first, second, and third loss positions in European collateralized debt obligation transactions. The quality of the underlying asset pool plays a predominant role for the loss allocation. A lower asset pool quality induces the originator to take a...</italic>

Der folgende Überblicksbeitrag untersucht betriebliche Investitionsentscheidungen bei Risiko. Dabei werden verschiedene Situationen zugrundegelegt, so die des Alleinunternehmers als auch die einer Mehrheit von Gesellschaftlern, wobei weiterhin danach unterschieden wird, ob die Gesellschafter...

A costless, fully revealing signalling equilibrium is derived from two easily understandable conditions. The outsidet-protection condition states that the outsiders relate the price which they offer to pay for a security inversely to the supply of this security which they interpret as a quality...