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Daniela Mast
Understanding and Predicting Demand Through Visual Characteristics and Neural Networks
Electronic Commerce, Marketing & Finance
Every season, online fashion retailers are confronted with the questions, which products to order and in what quantity. These questions are particularly important, because replenishment is difficult due to the short selling season and fashion products are perishable. Therefore, knowledge about typical product sales patterns and precise […]
Siham El Kihal
Product Return Management in Online Retailing
Electronic Commerce, Marketing & Finance
Online retailers are challenged by high return rates and the associated return costs. At the same time, they do not know whether their efforts should end with policy formulation, or if subsequent active return management has the potential to further improve profits. They also face several challenges when deciding on how to manage product […]
Patrick Lehmann
Three Essays on the Returns of German Stocks and Mutual Funds
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 Aktien zu erklären. Die […]
Thomas Topf
Care for the Elderly in Germany: Efficiency, Productivity and their Determinants
An Empirical Analysis for the Years 1999 to 2009
Schriftenreihe Gesundheitswissenschaften
By 2030 the number of persons of working age in Germany will drop by 7.5 million to 42.2 million, relative to the reference year 2008. Thus, the social security system in Germany faces a shrinking number of potential contributors while supporting a growing number of benefit recipients cared for by a shrinking number of potential nurses. One way […]
Christoph Breig
Asset Pricing and Default Risk
Since several decades, the financial markets price large amounts of money held in securities that face systematic and idiosyncratic risk. Thus, many theoretical and empirical asset pricing papers have addressed issues around the relationship between stock markets and systematic risk. Among others the following research topics have been […]
Marc Emanuel Schüssler
Eine empirische Analyse der Directors‘ Dealings im deutschsprachigen Raum
Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis
Der Autor untersucht empirisch die gemeldeten Insidertransaktionen in Deutschland, der Schweiz und Österreich. Als Datenbasis dienen die öffentlich zugänglichen Informationen zu den einzelnen Insidergeschäften, die von den jeweiligen Homepages der zuständigen Aufsichtsbehörde, BaFin, SIX und FMA, bezogen werden können. Mittels des Verfahrens […]
Jaba Ghonghadze
Essays on Micromotives and Macrobehavior, Expectation Formation, and Asset Price Dynamics
Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse
This work collects the author’s recent investigations in interactions-based approaches in economics and finance that he undertook as a doctoral candidate in the program ‘‘Quantitative Economics‘‘ at the University of Kiel, Germany. The study is arranged in three parts and it contains seven chapters. The idea of the first part, a potential […]
Markus Höchstötter
The Pareto Stable Distribution as a Hypothesis for Returns of Stocks Listed in the DAX
In dem Werk "The Pareto Stable Distribution as a Hypothesis for Returns of Stocks Listed in the DAX? werden im DAX enthaltene Aktien hinsichtlich der wahrscheinlichkeitstheoretischen Verteilung ihrer logarithmierten Renditen untersucht. Die Analyse umfasst Tagesdaten im Zeitraum zwischen 1988 und 2003. Somit stellt sie sicherlich eine der […]
Tobias Wickern
Multiple Testing Problems in the Context of Modern Portfolio Theory
A multiple testing problem occurs when two or more related null hypotheses are tested simultaneously. The classical significance level, which refers to the type I error of an individual test problem, is not suitable for testing a family of hypotheses. This is due to the fact that more than one true null hypothesis may erroneously be rejected. […]
Rüdiger Stucke
Financial Engineering and Structuring in Leveraged Buyouts
In a Leveraged Buyout, a Private Equity investor finances the purchase price of a company to a substantial fraction with debt in addition to the equity contribution out of his fund and from the participating management. The rationale for this financing structure is the substitution of equity, as an expensive source of capital, with comparably […]