The anticipation of a future bailout of distressed firms worsens ex ante adverse selection, causing a market freeze at present and inviting government intervention ("bailout trap"). When firms of heterogenous qualities raise financing, high-quality firms are willing to bear adverse selection...

Andreas Fuster is an Associate Professor of Finance and SFI Senior Chair at Swiss Finance Institute @ EPFL and a Research Fellow at the CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research). His main research interests are in empirical finance (household finance, real estate finance, banking),...

Corporate bond markets proved remarkably resilient against a sharp contraction caused by the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. We document three important findings: (1) bond issuance increased immediately when the contraction hit, whereas, in contrast, syndicated loan issuance was low; (2) Federal Reserve...

Die Transformation der Wirtschaft in Nordrhein-Westfalen hin zur Nachhaltigkeit erfordert große Investitionen, die durch einen breiten Mix an Partnern finanziert werden müssen. Mit Fin.Connect.NRW ist ein Netzwerk entstanden, das Finanzinstitutionen und Unter- nehmen der Realwirtschaft...

Programm: 1) Themencluster „Die Zukunft des Büros - Home Office, Out Of Office?“; 2) Themencluster „Was benötigt die Innenstadt HEUTE um ihre Multidimensionalität zu bewahren?“; 3) Themencluster „Rise of ESG“ - Opportunities and risks“; 4) Workshops „Pandemie Disruption:...