Die Weltwirtschaftskrise des Jahres 1929 beendete ein „goldenes Zeitalter“. Sie veränderte nachhaltig die internationale Völkergemeinschaft, unter anderem in Bezug auf den Welthandel, die Finanzströme und die Arbeitslosigkeit. Die Auswirkungen unserer heutigen Krise scheinen vergleichbar,...

The banking and currency crises of the last two decades inflictedsubstantial financial, economic, and social damage on thecountries in which they originated. In this work, the efficiencyof early warning indicators for these disastrous economic eventsis evaluated. An analysis of the traditional...

Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die ökonomische Analyse der Regelungen zur Kreditvergabe an Unternehmen der Neuen Basler Eigenkapitalvereinbarung in der Version vom Januar 2001 („Basel II”). Der grundlegende Unterschied zwischen diesem Regulierungsentwurf und der momentan gültigen...

Romer (2000) provides an alternative model to the AS/AD and IS/LM models that abandons the LM schedule by having the short-term interest rate set by the central bank. His framework acknowledges the critical role of the central bank in determining short-term interest rates, which moves mainstream...

Building on the important study by Beck, Demirguc-Kunt, and Levine [2006. Bank supervision and corruption in lending. Journal of Monetary Economics 53, 2131-2163], we examine the effects of both borrower and lender competition as well as information sharing via credit bureaus/registries on...

The paper provides empirical analysis on the linkage betweenthe behavior of bank lending and business cycles in South Africa. Consistentwith theory, overall evidence suggesting pro-cyclicality of bank lending isuncovered both at macro and micro levels. At macro level, bank lending andlending...

Artículo de revista ; As in other countries, the effect of the pandemic and the global recession on the Turkish economy was mitigated by the fiscal, financial and monetary support implemented by the country’s authorities. In fact, Turkey was one of the few economies of significant size to...