Three propositions: Insurance Companies can be systemic importance; Insurance companies should be subject to tougher regulation and supervision; Risks should be assessed on a group-wise basis...

Wie in den dreißiger Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts wird als Reaktion auf die von einem instabilen Finanzsystem ausgelöste Wirtschaftskrise die Forderung erhoben, den Finanzsektor stärker zu regulieren und zu beaufsichtigen. Angeblich droht eine Destabilisierung der gesamten Wirtschaft,...

Durch die Finanzmarktkrise sind zahlreicheVerbraucher dramatisch geschädigt worden.Viele private Anleger wurden in jüngsterVergangenheit zu risikoreichen Anlageproduktenüberredet, die häufi g den Bankenund Beratern hohe Provisionen sicherten, abernicht auf die Anlagebedürfnisse der...

The article reflects the present banking and financial crisis on basis of latest research results about the existence of superior economic and financial order acting within the real world (equal natural world). Within this order (equal natural order) observably all creatures use different types...

The article reflects the present banking and financial crisis on basis of latest research about the existence of superior economic and financial order within the real world (equal natural world). Within this order (equal natural order) observably all creatures use different types of energy like...

Germany’s banking sector has been severely hit by the globalfinancial crisis. In a German context as of February, 2009, this paper reviewsbriefly the structure of the banking industry, quantifies effects of the crisis onbanks and surveys responses of economic policy. It is argued that...

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On 5 December 1925, the ‘Portuguese Bank Note Bubble’ burst. The Lisbon daily newspaper, O Século (The Century), revealed the swindle in the headline ‘O Pais em Crise’ (The Country in Crisis). The article describes how twenty-eight year old white-collar worker, Artur Virgilio Alves...

Credit default swap portfolio securities lending program, inability to access capital markets, credit rating downgrade

This paper examines the question to what extent premia for macroeconomic risks inbanking are sufficient to avoid banking crises. We investigate a competitive bankingsystem embedded in an overlapping-generations model subject to repeatedmacroeconomic shocks. We show that even if banks fully...