[...]This paper studies a simple model of the talent-ownership mismatch — or failure ofmeritocracy — brought about by credit market imperfections that arise as a consequence ofagency problems in the borrower-lender relationship. Our model highlights the interactionbetween the market for...

This paper studies changes over time in the incidence of labor tying. The existingliterature is successful in explaining the emergence of this institution, but contains thecounterfactual implication that there should be an increasing trend in labor tying. However,previous contributions have so...

We argue that there is a connection between the interbank market for liquidity and thebroader financial markets, which has its basis in demand for liquidity by banks. Tightnessin the interbank market for liquidity leads banks to engage in what we term “liquiditypull-back,” which involves...

The pricing kernel puzzle is the observation that the pricing kernelmight be increasing in some range of the market returns. This paperanalyzes the pricing kernel in a nancial market equilibrium. If mar-kets are complete and investors are risk-averse and have common andtrue beliefs, the pricing...

The study of liquidity in financial markets either invokes the ease with whichfinancial securities can be bought and sold, or addresses the ability to tradewithout triggering important changes in asset prices. More specifically, onecan think of liquidity as an exogenous measure of the added...

We study effects of Basel II on credits for Swiss towns and cities in the years 2006(before Basel II) and 2007 (after Basel II). We collected data of these loans andcomputed their margins. Moreover we collected data on the financial situation of thetowns and cities and used this to compute a...

Mit finanzieller Unterstützung der Stiftung Ecoscientia und des NCCR FINRISK(National Centre of Competence in Research „Financial Valuation and RiskManagement“) hat das Institut für schweizerisches Bankwesen der UniversitätZürich eine Neuauflage der je in den Jahren 2000, 2002, 2004,...

This study examines the legal environment of netting agreements covering financial contracts. Itconcludes that an international instrument should be developed capable of improving theeffectiveness of netting agreements in mitigating systemic risk. To this end, two different aspectsof the...

Es handelt sich um ein Verfahren zur gerichtlichen Bestellung eines Sonderprüfers nach§ 142 Abs. 2 AktG bei der IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG. Die wirtschaftliche Lage derMittelstandsbank war während des Niedergangs des amerikanischen Immobilienmarktes imSommer 2007 unhaltbar geworden. Die...

The tendency to underestimate the future value of a variable growing at a constant rate, anexample of exponential growth bias, has been linked to household financial decision making.We show that exponential growth bias and standard measures of financial literacy arenegatively correlated in a...