This paper studies the impact of credit rating agency (CRA) announcements on the value of the Euro and the yields of French, Italian, German and Spanish long-term sovereign bonds during the culmination of the Eurozone debt crisis in 2011-2012. The employed GARCH models show that CRA downgrade...

We argue that a financial transaction tax complements financial market regulation. With the tax, governments have an additional instrument at hand to influence trading activity. FTT aims to reduce regulatory arbitrage, flash trading, overactive portfolio management, excessive leverage and...

Since the summer of 2007, participants in financial markets have been confronted by a crisis of their own making. In order to prevent the recurrence of a similar crisis in the future, the G-20 nations, at their finance summit in Washington on 15 November 2008, resolved to "ensure that all...

Die Coronakrise ist die erste globale Pandemie seit mehr als 100 Jahren. In dieser Hinsicht ist die Coronakrise einzigartig und damit wahrhaft "different". Aber ist sie auch "einzigartig" wenn die Reaktion der Finanzinstitute auf die Krise in den Blick genommen wird? Vor dem Hintergrund des...