Today we live in a post-truth and highly digitalized era characterized by a flow of (mis-) information around the world. Identifying the impact of this information on stock markets and forecasting stock returns and volatilities has become a much more difficult task, perhaps almost impossible....

Die jüngste Finanzmarktkrise hat deutlich gemacht, wie eng die Verbindung zwischen Immobilienfinanzierung, Immobilienmarkt und Finanzmarkt ist. Die Immobilienmärkte in den einzelnen Volkswirtschaften reagierten jedoch sehr unterschiedlich auf Zinsveränderungen und andere makroökonomische...

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the development of the German financial system, with a particular focus on financialization and the financial crisis, topics that have increasingly gained attention since the crisis and the discussion on the secular stagnation started. The authors of...