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Nur eine tödliche Darmkolitis bewahrte den Kadi Šaraf al-Din im Jahre 1397 vor Bestrafung und Amtsenthebung durch den Sultan. Heute bilden die Akten dieses Richters den Großteil der vor vierzig Jahren in Jerusalem entdeckten 900 ?aram-Urkunden.Christian Müllers Studie untersucht diesen außergewöhnlichen Korpus unter diplomatischen, rechtspraktischen und sozialhistorischen Gesichtspunkten. Erstmals lässt sich die Arbeitsweise eines Kadigerichts anhand von Originalurkunden detailliert rekonstruieren: von der Redaktion schriftlicher Zeugenurkunden über die mündlichen Verfahrensschritte bis zur Ur

The stylized facts that firms pay and investors react to dividends disregard dividend neutrality. Taking on the perspective that informational asymmetries are the central determinant for dividend value relevance, Christian Müller assumes that firm's dividend decision conveys useful information to investors. He shows that investors use dividend changes to revise their a priori expectations about the persistence of a current earnings change. While his theoretical and empirical analyses generally imply that dividend changes constitute informative, but imperfect information signals, he further identifies situations in which they are substantial to investors. Christian Müller's research comprehensively examines the informational role of dividend policy and provides new insights to the corresponding Bayesian investor learning process.

Die Frage, ob und unter welchen Voraussetzungen das Sozialamt erbrachte Geldleistungen von den (potentiell) unterhaltspflichtigen Angehörigen zurückfordern kann, hat in den letzten Jahren stetig an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Neuauflage des Werkes von Müller untersucht nicht nur die Rückgriffsmöglichkeiten beim Sozialhilfebezug (einschließlich der Grundsicherungsleistungen), sondern auch die unterhaltsrechtlichen Auswirkungen im Rahmen des SGB II.

The EURO has now been in place for more than two years, but only the future will tell if the ECB policy proves successful in the long-term. Whether the monetary authorities have sufficient information, and more important, the right information to manage the EURO currency, has been an open question and will remain so for some time to come. This book discusses the economic principals underlying the demand for money as a potentially useful relationship for policy makers, and the possibilities to recover its properties by means of multivariate time series analysis. It applies the outcome of these considerations to the whole EURO area as well as to France. While for the aggregate, a money demand function can be specified and be shown to have good forecasting properties, this fails in the French case. This book puts forth economic arguments that attempt to explain this. At various steps of the analysis, special attention is given to breaks in time series data. The presentation carefully outlines all means that have been used to cope with shifts in coefficients of the cointegration relations. A separate chapter is dedicated to testing for unit roots in time series with level shifts. This includes detection of break points, provision of test statistics, graphical evaluation of the empirical models and illustration of the procedure with a large set of international macroeconomic data