This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of foreign-owned banks for credit growth, financial stability and economic growth in the post-communist European countries. Using data covering 20 countries over the period from 1995 to 2015, the authors analyse the evolution of banking sectors...

Motivation und Vorgehen -- Charakteristika und Ausgestaltungsoptionen bedingten Kapitals.- Wandlungseffekte durch bedingtes Kapital -- Emissions- und Risikowahlanreize mit bedingtem Kapital -- Kreditangebot von Banken und Kreditklemme -- Kreditvergabe mit bedingtem Kapital.

Modellierung der Abhängigkeiten zwischen Ausfall, Verlustrate und Forderungshöhe bei Ausfall mit Faktoren und Copulae -- Multivariate Erweiterung des Heckman-Schätzers, um der Stichprobenselektion seitens der Verlustrate und der Forderungshöhe gerecht zu werden -- Empirische Befunde zur...

Allein in den ersten drei Wochen nach dem Mauerfall zahlte die Bundesrepublik an 16,4 Millionen DDR-Bürger jeweils 100 Mark Begrüßungsgeld aus. Was hätte aus diesem Einsatz in der seither vergangenen Zeit bei geschickter oder weniger geschickter Anlagetaktik werden können? Die politischen...

Holger Markmann studies covered bonds and their market behaviour upon the announcement and implementation of outright covered bond purchases by the eurosystem. After introducing the covered bond market, its reaction to the global financial crisis, and the functionality of unconventional monetary...

This book concentrates on exchange rates and their macroeconomic consequences, analytical and empirical issues relating to currency crises and policy responses and monetary and financial cooperation in Asia. It is truely pan-Asia-focused with chapters on China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast...

This sequel to the author's earlier well-received Euro On Trial, shows how European Monetary Union became a main engine of the global credit bubble and puts forward a set of remedies which would reduce the danger of further economic debacle emanating from serious flaws in the present...

This book presents a clear exposition of what constitutes asymmetry in economics. It provides an empirical application of these ideas in the case of the EU. In particular, it shows how important asymmetry is for the appropriate design of policy in the Euro Area.

Fabian Schnell develops a model indicating that by keeping real interest rates too low, monetary policy can distort the allocation of resources across firms and potentially delay economic recovery after a recession. This is a new channel of monetary policy that is especially relevant in view of...