"Mortgage-related hit worse than expected" has been a frequently cited phrase in recent months, and is usually followed by a list of victims consisting of banks and hedge funds. Although the current mortgage mess was caused by the subprime mortgage or bad credit mortgage, the broad impact of...

We study the effect of primary commodities on development indicators in a sample of 86 countries over the period 1965-2005. To this purpose we employ a system of equations. We use interactive terms to estimate separate slope coefficients for Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, Central African...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a specific test of Boucher, Carter et al.(2008) framework on risk rationing. The data were collected through a survey of 730farm households in Shaanxi province conducted in November 2010. We comparefactor associated with risk rationed, quantity rationed...

Most papers on banking focus on profitability and cost efficiency as measures of performance. In doing so, these papers ignore the fact that, unlike in the manufacturing and services sector industries, the long term viability of a bank depends more on its ability to assess credit worthiness of...

This thesis studies the role of banks in the transmission of nominal shocks into credit markets in emerging countries. It builds on the lending channel hypothesis, which states that, due to imperfections in capital markets, banks may not be able to completely offset a negative shock to deposits...

Since the 1980s, household debt has been increasing rapidly. The high level of household indebtedness has been accompanied by a high household bankruptcy rate. My research attempts to provide a better understanding of the theoretical mechanisms behind these credit market and bankruptcy...

Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit innovativen Arbeitsprozessen in der Finanzmarktkommunikation in Form von agilen Projektmanagements, wobei insbesondere die Kommunikationspolitik von Zertifikateemittenten im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung steht. Im Verlauf dieser Arbeit wird die Notwendigkeit der...

Die Investitionsmöglichkeiten für den Privatanleger am Kapitalmarkt sindspeziell in den letzten Jahren massiv gestiegen. Nicht nur durch die stetig steigende Anzahl an Finanzprodukten, sondern auch durch die Option unkompliziert einen Zugang zum Finanzmarkt zu bekommen, ist die fortschreitende...

In einem Grundlagenteil beschreibt die Arbeit zunaechst die Ansatzpunkte internationaler Kooperation zur Praevention von Finanzkrisen, fokussierend auf die Regulierung von Banken und Wertpapierfirmen, und beschreibt die wesentlichen Massnahmen und Institutionen der internationalen Zusammenarbeit...