The explicit or implicit protection of banks through government bail-out policies is a universal phenomenon. We analyze the competitive effects of such policies in two models with different degrees of transparency in the banking sector. Our main result is that the bail-out policy unambiguously...

We analyze the relationship between bank size and risk-taking under the New Basel Capital Accord. Using a model with imperfect competition and moral hazard, we show that the introduction of an internal ratings based (IRB) approach improves upon flat capital requirements if the approach is...

The use of file-sharing technologies, so-called Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, to copy music files has become common since the arrival of Napster. P2P networks may actually improve the matching between products and buyers - we call this the matching effect. For a label the downside of P2P networks...

Airbnb und Uber schaffen mit ihren Geschäftsmodellen neue Märkte. Werden dadurch Ressourcen besser genutzt, oder werden soziale Standards und gesetzliche Regulierungen umgangen? Nach Meinung von Tim Brühn und Georg Götz, Universität Gießen, bilden sich im Ergebnis Unternehmen mit hohen...