Subject of the study presented in this paper is the analysis of the relevance of the Internet as an information source in German banks. The results show, that today the Internet is indeed the most important information source for many types of information used in the business processes of banks....

Bei der Erklärung des Börsengeschehens ist die Psychologie einer der meistgenannten Begriffe. So weisen die Kurse teilweise ökonomisch kaum nachvollziehbare Schwankungen auf, und Studien gelangen zu dem Ergebnis, dass der Zusammenhang zwischen Kursen und Fundamentaldaten relativ gering ist.1...

With the development of new internet technologies new security problems arise. Thus, it is important to consider security aspects during the complete development process of a web application. Every participant of such a process should have the appropriate knowledge. Classical learning methods...

Today, the investment into indices has become a widely used strategy in portfolio management. While Index Funds and ETFs try to represent the performance of a single index, other portfolio strategies use indices as portfolio components to concentrate on the allocation task. Because an index...

Empirical and experimental papers nd that high-powered incentives may re-duce performance rather than improve it; a phenomenon referred to as "chokingunder pressure". We show that competition for high ability workers neverthelessleads rms to oer high bonus payments, thereby deliberately...

The current financial market crisis has impressively demonstrated the importance of aneffective credit risk management for financial institutions. At the same time, the use and thevaluation of credit derivatives has been widely criticised as a result of the crisis. Over the pastdecade, credit...

This paper analyzes the determinants of alternative automobile fuel regulation and developmentsupport with a particular focus on methanol fuel. We find that embedded interests, bureaucraticreforms, and political circumstances in the Chinese national, provincial, and municipalgovernments have all...

Based on German data between 1999 and 2007, we analyze the growth factors of SMEs andcontrast them with those of large firms. Differences show up both in balance sheet and employmentgrowth. While we conrm earlier results on inherent growth structures and the inuence of firm age,we derive several...

Welche Einflussfaktoren bestimmen die Spreadentwicklung im Kapitalmarktsegment derBanken im Verlauf der Finanzkrise? Unter Verwendung der Regressionsanalyse werden dieDeterminanten von Asset-Swap- (ASW) und Credit-Default-Swap- (CDS) Spreads ausgewähltereuropäischer Banken im Zeitraum April...