The relationship between physician and patient has been discussed intensively in the literature. Nevertheless, they neglect the fact that the production of health not only depends on the medical services supplied by the physician but is also influenced by the patient's compliance. We present a...

This paper contributes to the debate on the efficacy of IMF's catalytic finance in preventing financial crises. Extending Morris and Shin (2006), we consider that the IMF's intervention policy usually exerts a signaling effect on private creditors and that several interventions in sequence may...

Finanzintermediäre können eine portfoliotheoretisch motivierte Optimierung ihres Buchkreditportefeuilles nur unter der Bedingung realisieren, dass die Kreditrisiken am Sekundärmarkt handelbar sind. Mit Kreditverkäufen, Kreditverbriefungen und Kreditderivaten haben sich die Möglichkeiten...