In investigations on the behaviour of robust estimators, typically their consistency and their asymptotic normality are studied as a necessity. Their rates of convergence, however, are often given less weight. We show here that the rate of convergence of a multivariate robust estimator to its...

Neben der Einleitung ist die Dissertation in zwei Teile aufgeteilt. In Teil I wird die Annahme eines Investors mit μ-σ Präferenz getroffen. Das erste Kapitel stellt ein Multi-Rating ATSM unter Arbitragefreiheit mit dem klaren Fokus auf Zinsstrukturkurvenmodelle für Unternehmensanleihen vor....

Over the past three decades ecological economics has emerged as a coherent transdisciplinary approach to environmental problem solving. However, its evolution has been quite dissimilar in different parts of the world. In the US and UK, ecological economics evolved as a critique of and...

River basin management in Germany : past experiences and challenges ahead / Daniel Petry, Ines Dombrowsky -- Integrated agricultural and hydrological modeling within an intensive livestock region / Peter Kreins, Horst Gm(c)·oann, Sylvia Herrmann, Ralf Kunkel, Frank Wendland -- Integration of...