Although secured transactions traditionally are regulated to protect transacting parties and to make the transactions themselves more efficient, the financial crisis has revealed that regulation should also protect the stability of the financial system. This raises numerous future challenges....

This paper introduces a two-step strategy, the synthetic control method combined with the difference-in-differences method, to evaluate the effectiveness of the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA). We find no evidence from our counterfactual analysis in support of the DFA reducing systemic risk in the US...

The Global Financial Crisis saw an unprecedented level of government intervention to save failing financial institutions. Bailouts became synonymous with the Crisis. Despite promises of “no more bailout”, international efforts to implement resolution regimes to resolve systemically important...

Pension assets have seen rapid growth world-wide over the past decades, although they suffered large losses during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008. This paper seeks to identify the impact of Asian pension funds on selected key transmission mechanisms from pension reform to financial...

Vor über vier Jahren wurde an der Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse der "Neue Markt" eingerichtet. Seither konnte er beachtliche Erfolge verbuchen. Seit einem Jahr kommt es allerdings nicht nur zu Kursrückgängen, sondern auch zu zahlreichen Kurseinbrüchen. Trotzdem sollte nach Meinung von Prof....