After three decades of being relatively constant, the homeownership rate increased over the 1994-2005 period to attain record highs. The objective of this paper is to account for the observed boom in ownership by examining the role played by changes in demographic factors and innovations in the...

Ongoing financial innovation and greater information availability increase the tradability of bank assets and reduce banks' dependence on individual bank managers as private information in the lending process declines. In this paper we argue that this has two effects on banks, with opposing...

Some have argued that recent increases in credit risk transfer are desirable because they improve the diversification of risk. Others have suggested that they may be undesirable if they increase the risk of financial crises. Using a model with banking and insurance sectors, we show that credit...

This paper investigates the stability of the German money supply focusing on the period 1991 - 1998. It is shown that the standard ARIMA-Transfer model approach in the literature needs to be augmented by a cointegration term to adequately model the dynamics of money supply in Germany. Additional...

Ein zentrales Thema der Diskussionen um die zukünftige weltwirtschaftliche Entwicklung bilden immer noch die Zahlungsprobleme hochverschuldeter Entwicklungsländer. Die Strategien, die von den betroffenen Schuldnerländern, den westlichen Geschäftsbanken und den internationalen Organisationen...

This paper adopts a normative approach to catastrophe insurance.