During the 2008 financial crisis, increasing risk and spillovers became a main concern for policy makers and banks. In addition, changes in sovereign and bank risk are believed to have had strong effects on world-wide exchange rates. This paper aims to analyze these dynamics empirically. We...

This study applies a novel way of measuring, quantifying and modelling the systemic risk within the financial system. The magnitude of risk spill over effects is gauged by introducing a specific weighting scheme. This approach originally stems from spatial econometrics. The methodology allows...

Originating the derivative -- Social theory and the market for the production of financial knowledge -- Outline of a social theory of finance -- Temporality and the financial markets -- Theorizing the financial markets socially -- Rituality and the production of financial markets -- The...

We apply Bayesian Model Averaging and a frequentistic model space analysis to assess the pricing-determinants of credit default swaps (CDS). Our study focuses on the complete model space of plausible models covering most of the variables and specifications used elsewhere in the literature,...

Die Finanzkrise von 2007-2008 hat die Mängel der Finanzsystemregulierung weltweit offengelegt. Der vom Basler Ausschuss für Bankenaufsicht erarbeitete Regulierungsansatz Basel II hat sich als mangelhaft erwiesen. Unter Zuhilfenahme eines agentenbasierten Simulationsmodells, welches die...

We investigate how the lending activities of a multinational bank’s affiliates located abroad are affected by funding difficulties in view of the financial crisis. For this, we consider transaction-induced changes in long-term lending to the private sector of 40 countries by the affiliates of...