"There have been two global financial crises in the past century: the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession that began in 2008. Both featured loose credit, precarious real estate and stock market bubbles, suspicious banking practices, an inflexible monetary system, and global...

The past Greek crisis experience is more or less terra incognita. In all historical empirical studies Greece is systematically neglected or included only sporadically in their cross-country samples. In the national literature too there is little on this topic. In this paper we focus on the Greek...

Redakteure der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung befassen sich mit Finanzkrisen der Vergangenheit und mit der jetzigen "Subprime"-Krise. Im 1. Teil geht es um Crashs der Vergangenheit, beginnend mit dem 1. Staatsbankrott in der Regierungszeit Kaiser Karls V, über die Spekulationsblase am...