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Lefteris Topaloglou / Eike Albrecht / Steven Kramm / Niyanta Shetye (Ed.)

Pursuing Societal Transformation in Coal Mining Regions through Education and Knowledge Transfer

Umweltrecht in Forschung und Praxis

This volume is the outcome of a scientific workshop on Pursuing Societal Transformation through Education and Knowledge Transfer in Kozani. The workshop was carried out in December 2022 in the framework of a cooperation project financed by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The project brought together Brandenburg University of […]

Jonas Meister

Causal Analysis on Observational Data for Discount Campaigns in E-Commerce

Forschungsergebnisse zur Informatik

Causal thinking is an inherent human behavior crucial for understanding relationships in diverse situations. Despite its significance, machine learning algorithms often struggle to identify causality, relying instead on historical patterns. This limitation hampers their ability to adapt to new scenarios, like the cold start […]

Fabian Kraut

Impact of Variety and Control on Users’ Reactions to Recommender Systems

Exemplary Application Diversifying Users’ Meal Choices

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Empfehlungssysteme (RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS) bezeichnen auf Algorithmen basierende Softwarewerkzeuge und -techniken, die darauf abzielen, die Entscheidungsfindung von Nutzern zu unterstützen, indem sie Elemente vorschlagen, die für die Nutzer von Interesse sind. Sehr bekannte Anwendungen aus der Praxis finden sich beispielsweise bei Netflix, […]

Eike Albrecht / Dmitry Palekhov / Steven Kramm / Toni Mileski (Eds.)

Transposition of the Acquis Communautaire: Environment and Migration

Umweltrecht in Forschung und Praxis

This volume is the result of two conferences that have been organised by two departments of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), Cottbus, Germany – Department of Public Law, with Focus on Environmental and Planning Law at the Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences, and the Department of Environmental […]

Manuel Weinmann

Earnings Forecast Modeling

A Systematic Approach

Finanzmanagement

Equity analysts’ earnings forecasts, collected by the Institutional Brokers’ Estimate Service (IBES), Zacks and other news providers, serve as a central input in financial research. For example, Claus & Thomas (2001) use earnings forecasts to estimate the equity risk premium. The equity risk premium, defined as the excess of the expected return […]

Janez Vodičar / Bojan Jošt

Reliability and Validity of the Skijumping Technique Factors

Schriften zur Sportwissenschaft

The new book by the experienced authors in sports presents research in the ski jumping technique based on selected dynamic and kinematic factors.

Ski jumping is a technically challenging sport and the most important for jump realization are stability, reliability and validity.

The authors divided the ski jumping technique […]

Isabel González Rey (ed./Hrsg.)

Phraseodidactic Studies on German as a Foreign Language/ Phraseodidaktische Studien zu Deutsch als Fremdsprache

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

Phraseological competence is one of the main challenges for language learners. Phraseodidactics, as one of the applied fields of Phraseology, fosters this competence by providing teachers and students with certain tools and techniques. In this collective volume, eight specialists put forward the relevance of this field and formulate guidelines […]

Christopher F. Mokwa

Valuation and Default Risk Assessment in Venture Capital Investments

The Impact of Biases in Management Forecasts and the Relevance of Selected Financial and Non-Financial Information from Due Diligence Documents

Finanzmanagement

This book examines the impact of selected due diligence information on the valuation of venture-backed start-ups and the assessment of default risks. By investigating the characteristics and consequences of biases in multi-year management forecasts, this thesis also sheds light on the role of optimism and confidence in entrepreneurial […]

Miriam Breunsbach

Applications of Company Valuation Models

Empirical Evidence on Selected Topics

Finanzmanagement

“One of the most important problems of corporate finance is the valuation of proprietary equities” as stated by Preinreich (1936).

Determining the economic value of a company is indeed an important theoretical and practical issue. The estimation of the true value of a company is essential for stock market investors, either […]

Daniel Hartmann

Stock Markets and Real-Time Macroeconomic Data

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

It has been common practice in empirical studies to use revised macroeconomic data that are available to a researcher ex post for the analysis of historical time series. This practice, however, does not take into account that macroeconomic data are revised over time and that theses revisions can be substantial. Results of empirical analyses may […]