Foreword Corporate Evaluation in the German Banking sector is becoming more and more important. In times of hostile takeovers, missing success in the retail market and an unpleasant cost income ratio, especially small cooperative banks and savings banks are facing a changed situation they have never expected. The changing speed has increased dramatically in the German banking sector. While selling of a savings bank was not possible even 5 years ago, this hard frontier is broken up now. Banks have to manage this changed situation in order to prevent to be taken over or to increase the own...

Svend Reuse analysiert das Verhalten von Korrelationen in Extremsituationen unter Berucksichtigung des irrationalen Marktverhaltens. Auf Basis der Ergebnisse einer Umfrage bei 1.000 deutschen Kreditinstituten zum Verhalten von Korrelationen in Praxis und Umgang mit Asset-Allocation evaluiert der Autor marktdatenbasierte Irrationalitatsindizes.