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Sebastian Zurheide

Revenue Management in Liner Shipping

Logistik-Management in Forschung und Praxis

In the recent past, the liner shipping industry has taken many steps to create a more suitable environment for the use of revenue management methods. More reliable services, daily services, or loading protection fees improve the service for the customer and offer segmentation options for the carriers. Hence, different booking classes can be created with different service values for the customers, and revenue management methods can be used as decision support for the…

Falk Wagner

Quantitative Credit Risk Management for Credit Limit Control of Subscribers to Mobile Communication Services

Schriften zum Mobile Commerce und zur Mobilkommunikation

Protecting the base of existing customers from churn is a strategic lever for revenue protection of mobile communication service providers. Understanding customers’ sensitivities to changes in billing amounts creates an under-valued opportunity to reduce customer churn for non-payment.

Leveraging credit risk techniques from the financial industry, a framework for customer segmentation based on spending behaviour is presented. By significantly improving…

Anna Lytvynyuk

Fundamental Rights Operation in Private Law

A Comparative Study of Legal Solutions

Studien zum Zivilrecht

The book analyses how fundamental rights operate in private law on the example of judicial enforcement of fundamental rights. Five distinct ways of such judicial adjudication in a private law case involving a fundamental right are identified and examined in ten European countries: England and Wales, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain.

The finding of the comparative analyses presents answers to the questions of…

Joanna Krzeminska-Vamvaka

Freedom of Commercial Speech in Europe

Studien zum Völker- und Europarecht

Due to the politicisation of commercial life and the commercialisation of political life the freedom of expression enters new territories and triggers conflicts in areas to which fundamental rights considerations have been rather unusual so far. The companies participate in public debates or advertise with reference to social or environmental problems. In Germany the civil courts adopted a very strict approach to this type of advertising and held that it contravened the…

Björn Enders

Hedge-Fonds im Steuerrecht der USA

Eine branchenspezifische Untersuchung vergleichend zum deutschen Recht

Steuerrecht in Forschung und Praxis

Während Hedge-Fonds in den USA nunmehr seit Jahrzehnten als Teil der sogenannten alternativen Kapitalanlagen etabliert sind, begegnen in Deutschland sowohl Politik als auch Anleger der Branche weiterhin eher zurückhaltend, obwohl die geringere Marktkorrelation von Hedge-Fonds – verglichen mit den klassischen Kapitalanlagen – zur Optimierung des Rendite-Risiko-Verhältnisses eines Portfolios beitragen kann.

Die USA sind mit weitem Abstand der weltweit bedeutendste…

Rostam J. Neuwirth

The Cultural Industries in International Trade Law

Insights from the NAFTA, the WTO and the EU

Studien zum Völker- und Europarecht

The present book evaluates the present regulatory situation of various cultural goods and services, known as the cultural industries, under international trade law. Particularly, it looks at the experiences of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the European Union (EU) in order to critically evaluate the efficiency and legitimacy of the current multilateral trading regime established under the aegis of the World Trade Organization (WTO). [...]