The paper shows that structural models of the IS-LM and Mundell-Fleming variety have a lot to tell about the macroeconomics of the current global crisis. In addition to demonstrating how the emergence of risk premiums in money and capital markets may drive economies into recessions, it shows the...

Die Finanzmärkte reagieren in der gegenwärtigen Staatsschuldenkrise offensichtlich auf Meinungsäußerungen der marktbeherrschenden Ratingagenturen – selbst wenn diese in scheinbarem Widerspruch zur vorherigen Bewertung ökonomischer Fundamentaldaten stehen. Das führt dazu, dass private...

This paper asks whether rating agencies played a passive role or were an active driving force during Europe's sovereign debt crisis. We address this by estimating relationships between sovereign debt ratings and macroeconomic and structural variables. We then use these equ-ations to decompose...