Die Pleite der Investmentbank Lehman Brothers am 15. September 2008 löste eine globale Finanzkrise aus. Dies kann als außergewöhnliches Ereignis interpretiert werden, aber auch als eine Krise des Systems. Mittlerweile wurden die Banken stärker reguliert (Basel III), beibehalten wurde aber...

We analyze shareholders' incentives to change the leverage of a firm that has already borrowed substantially. As a result of debt overhang, shareholders have incentives to resist reductions in leverage that make the remaining debt safer. This resistance is present even without any government...

Supplementing the discussion in our book The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It, this paper examines the plausibility and relevance of claims in banking theory that fragility in bank funding is useful because it imposes discipline on bank managers. The...