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...

After the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007-2008 the level of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the economy has generally increased. However, while in some countries this has been a transitory phenomenon, in others it still represents a major threat for economic recovery and financial...

The market-based SRISK measure introduced in Brownlees and Engle (2015) is used to measure the level of systemic risk in Danish banks for the period 2005-15. We find that SRISK was a very good predictor of which banks that needed public capital injections during the financial crisis of 2007-09....