Unfassbare Summen werden in das wankende Finanzsystem gepumpt, aberwitzige Milliardenbeträge für Wirtschaftshilfen bereitgestellt, und die Schuldigen an der Krise machen einfach weiter wie bisher während gleichzeitig immer mehr Arbeitsplätze wegbrechen, Kommunen und Bürger in die Pleite...

This paper examines whether elections, which are generally held on fixed dates, and banking crises explain the timing of tax reforms and the allocation of the additional tax burden. Using an original fine-grained dataset of tax reforms, the paper finds support for the role of these two sources...

Systemic susceptibility highlights the extent to which a banking sector is sensitive to negative shocks. Policymakers and regulators' objective is to avoid financial crises, and even though they can somewhat control local conditions, internationally transmitted crises are difficult to tackle....

Recent international macroeconomics literature on global imbalances explains the U.S. persistent current account deficit and emerging countries' surplus. Little research has been done at the banking-sector level, where U.S. banks are lenders to banks in emerging countries. We build a two-country...