This paper assesses the influence of an adoption of IAS/IFRS or US GAAP on the financial analysts forecastaccuracy in a homogenous institutional framework. Our findings suggest that the forecast accuracy ishigher for estimates based on IFRS or US GAAP data than for forecasts based on German GAAP...

Contracts paying a guaranteed minimum rate of return and a fraction of a positive excess rate, whichis specified relative to a benchmark portfolio, are closely related to unit-linked life-insurance productsand can be considered as alternatives to direct investment in the underlying benchmark....

How do evaluative practices become natural and ubiquitous in an organization? In this paper we integratefindings from previous empirical work on the adoption of evaluative practices in organizations with insightsfrom institutional theory and social psychology research for advancing the...

In this paper we first show that the gains achievable by integrating pricing and inventory controlare usually small for classical demand functions. We then introduce reference price models anddemonstrate that for this class of demand functions the benefits of integration with inventory...

We consider an economic order quantity model where the supplier offers an all-units quantitydiscount and a price sensitive customer demand. We compare a decentralized decision frameworkwhere selling price and replenishment policy are determined independently to simultaneous decisionmaking....

Non-monotone incentive structures, which - according to theory - are able to induce optimal behavior, are often regarded as empirically less relevant for labor relationships. We compare the performance of a theoretically optimal non-monotone contract with a monotone one under controlled...

This paper describes a simple way to integrate the debt tax shield into an accounting-based valuation model. The market value of equity is determined by forecasting residual operating income, which is calculated by charging operating income for the operating assets at a required return that...

Conjoint analysis (CA) is one of the most important methods for preference elicitation. In this paper we investigate the intellectual structure within the conjoint analytical research community. Analyses based on single papers provide a method-based overview of streams of conjoint research. By...

For many services, consumers can choose among a range of optional tariffs that differ in their access and usage prices. Recent studies indicate that tariff-specific preferences may lead consumers to choose a tariff that does not minimize their expected billing rate. This study analyzes how...

In manual order picking systems, order pickers walk or drive through a distribution warehouse in order to collect items which are requested by (internal or external) customers. In order to perform these operations efficiently, it is usually required that customer orders are combined into (more...