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Philipp Immenkötter

Essays on Capital Structure Decisions:

Financial Flexibility, the Business Cycle, and Tax Benefits

Finanzmanagement

This book provides an extensive analysis of how companies choose the mix of debt and equity to finance their assets. In three distinct essays, the author presents novel empirical and theoretical explanations for the dispersion of debt ratios of US firms within the last four decades. The first essay shows the…

Maximilian Bader

Three Essays on Cause and Effect of CEO Disciplining

An Empirical Analysis with Global Data

Finanzmanagement

This study is based on empirical finance research in the field of corporate governance. It examines cause and effect of CEO disciplining with three self-contained essays. For a global data sample, events of CEO dismissal are used as a proxy for active monitoring by boards. The essays deal with i) relative…

Mathias Kube

The Economics of Open Innovation

Essays on Private and Public Actors in Systems of Innovation

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

In today‘s globalized world innovation plays a major role. For states, the generation of new knowledge through innovations impacts the economic development and the standard of living. For companies, innovation is crucial to achieve competitive advantage. Specifically the concept of Open Innovation has been…

Markus Wiemann

Essays on the Role of Credit Ratings in Corporate Finance

Finanzmanagement

Rating agencies are important players in today’s financial markets. They have strong influence on companies’ costs of debt and investors’ decisions. However, rating agencies were and are not free of criticism. The conflict that emerges from the strong influence of credit ratings on firms, on the one hand, and the…

Patrick Lehmann

Three Essays on the Returns of German Stocks and Mutual Funds

Finanzmanagement

Das auf Englisch verfasste Buch beschäftigt sich mit zwei zentralen Themenfeldern der empirischen Kapitalmarktforschung. Zum einen mit der Frage, inwieweit es vorteilhaft ist, in deutsche Aktieninvestmentfonds zu investieren und zum anderen, ob das Capital Asset Pricing Model geeignet ist, die Renditen deutscher…

Mariana Stamm

Essays on Asymmetric Markets

Advertising, Collusion and Mobile Telecommunications

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

In day-to-day business, managers are accustomed to think of their competitors as individuals who differ in size, cost structure and, for example, consumer appeal. Yet, most research in the field of industrial organization maintains the assumption of symmetry between firms. This book contains a collection of three…

Florian Haagen

Venture Capital Financing Practice in Germany and the UK

Essays on Silent Partnerships, Smart Money, and Financing Decisions

Finanzmanagement

In den letzten Jahren ist die Untersuchung der Finanzierung von Unternehmensgründungen sowohl aus theoretischer als auch aus praktischer Perspektive in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses gerückt. Aus theoretischer Perspektive bietet sich die Untersuchung von Unternehmensgründungen an, weil hier eine besonders…

Veit Köppen, Roland M. Müller (Eds.)

Business Intelligence: Methods and Applications

Essays in Honor of Prof. Dr. Hans-J. Lenz

Studien zur Wirtschaftsinformatik

This Festschrift is a collection of articles by colleagues and (former) students of Prof. Hans-J. Lenz to honor his work in the field of Business Intelligence.

The 18 articles provide interesting insights into many methods and applications of this innovative topic, such as data warehousing, statistics,…