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The Impact of Cointegration on Commodity Spread Options

In this work we explore the implications of cointegration in a system of commodity prices on the premiums of options written on various spreads on the futures prices of these commodities. We employ a parsimonious, yet comprehensive model for cointegration in a system of commodity prices. The model has an exponential affine structure and is flexible enough to allow for an arbitrary…

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English / 01/01/2016

Protected values and economic decision-making

This chapter starts by reflecting on the notion of "value" in economics. It then describes how economic decision-making models are framed and examines their moral dimension. The foundations of traditional economic decision-making models contrast with the emphasis of psychological research on the role of deontological considerations in decision-making. The focus is on a…

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English / 01/01/2016

Lipschitz and Hölder stability of optimization problems and generalized equations

This paper studies stability aspects of solutions of parametric mathematical programs and generalized equations, respectively, with disjunctive constraints. We present sufficient conditions that, under some constraint qualifications ensuring metric subregularity of the constraint mapping, continuity results of upper Lipschitz and upper Hölder type, respectively, hold. Furthermore, we…

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English / 01/01/2016

Human resource management and radical innovation: a fuzzy-set QCA of US multinationals in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK

This paper explores, based on the varieties-of-capitalism approach, configurations of key human resource management practices that explain radical innovation in subsidiaries. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is conducted with data for 69 subsidiaries of US-based MNEs in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. Contrary to the implications of the varieties-of-capitalism…

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English / 01/01/2016

Effectiveness of Social Media Communication - An Empirical Analysis of Key Performance Drivers

Despite the fact that most companies have embraced social media as part of the mar-keting mix, there still remains a significant lack of knowledge as to what drives com-munication effectiveness in this new kind of peer-to-peer environment where tradi-tional, well-settled marketing communication paradigms like domination and control do show their limits. Accordingly, corporate…

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English / 01/01/2016

Stochastic Integrated Assessment of Ecosystem Tipping Risk

One of the major potential consequences of climate change is damage to earth’s ecosystems, damage which could manifest itself in the form of tipping risks. We establish an economic growth model of ecosystem tipping risks, set in the context of possible forest dieback. We consider different specifications of impacts arising from the forest dieback tipping point, specifications such as…

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English / 01/01/2016

Business statesman or shareholder advocate? CEO responsible leadership styles and the micro-foundations of Political CSR

In this article we pursue two objectives. First, we refine the concept of responsible leadership from an upper echelon perspective by exploring two distinct styles (instrumental and integrative) and thereby further developing the understanding of the newly emerging integrative style. Second, we propose a framework that examines the micro-foundations of political corporate social…

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English / 01/01/2016

Decomposing the effects of online customer reviews on brand, price, and product attributes

Online customer reviews (OCRs) have become a major source of information for customers in the Internet. Understanding the impact of OCRs on customers' decisions is an important challenge for academics and practitioners. We apply a choice-based conjoint experiment that combines all relevant levels of the OCR dimensions (valence, volume, and variance) and that estimates the effect…

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English / 01/01/2016

Do casinos pay their customers to become risk-averse? Revising the house money effect in a natural experiment

In order to promote risky behavior, it is a common practice that casinos incentivize their customers through the provision of free financial means, i.e., free play. Thereby, casino operators try to exploit what is known as the house money effect. However, evidence from the field is scarce and prior research provides explanations that predict different behavioral outcomes. This…

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English / 07/12/2015

A Generalized Bachelier Formula for Pricing Basket and Spread Options

In this paper we propose a closed-form pricing formula for European basket and spread options. Our approach is based on approximating the risk-neutral probability density function of the terminal value of the basket using a Gauss-Hermite series expansion around the Gaussian density. The new method is quite general as it can be applied for a basket with a large number of assets and…

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English / 04/12/2015

A review of empirical resarch on the design and impact of regulation in the banking sector

We review existing empirical research on the design and impact of regulation in the banking sector. The impact of each individual piece of regulation may inexorably depend on the set of regulations already in place, the characteristics of the banks involved (from their size or ownership structure to operational idiosyncrasies in terms of capitalization levels or risk taking behavior…

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English / 01/12/2015

The perennial challenge to counter Too-Big-to-Fail in banking: Empirical evidence from the new international regulation dealing with Global Systemically Important Banks

This paper provides evidence on how the new international regulation on Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) impacts the market value of large banks. We analyze the stock price reactions for the 300 largest banks from 52 countries across 12 relevant regulatory announcement and designation events. We observe that the new regulation negatively affects the value of the newly…

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English / 01/12/2015

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