Das Unbehagen, das die internationale Schuldenkrise bei ihm auslöste, war für den Ex-Banker Anlass, sich ausführlicher mit Ursachen, Wirkungen und möglichen Auswegen aus dem Teufelskreis wachsender Schulden zu befassen. In einer Rückschau werden die historischen Weltschuldenkrisen...

During the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve established two emergency facilities for broker-dealers: one provided collateralized loans, the other collateral upgrades. These facilities alleviated dealers' funding pressures when access to repos backed by illiquid collateral deteriorated....

We investigate how financial contracting interacts with lending channel effects by tracing the anatomy of a credit supply shock using micro-level data from a multinational bank. Borrowers with stronger lending relationships, higher non-lending revenues, and those that pledge collateral,...