Financial covenants play a crucial role in mitigating agency conflicts in loan agreements of high leverage. In a European-wide qualitative survey among private equity experts, we assessed the impact of the financial crisis on financial covenants in leveraged buyout transactions. We concentrated...

Der Ausbruch der weltweiten Finanzkrise wird zwar immer wieder auf das Jahr 2008 mit dem Zusammenbruch von Lehman Brothers und den daraus folgenden Schockwellen terminiert, doch eigentlich begann die Krise bereits 2007 mit dem Platzen der Immobilienblase. Es folgten Bankenzusammenbrüche, die...

In this paper, we analyze the effect of the conversion price of CoCo bonds on equity holders' incentives. First, we use an option-pricing context to show that CoCo bonds can magnify equity holders' incentives to increase the riskiness of assets and decrease incentives to raise new equity in a...

In this paper we propose a measure of systemic risk in the financial sector, the Expected Systemic Shortfall (ESS) indicator. The ESS-indicator is the product of the probability of a systemic default event and the expected tail loss in case this systemic event occurs. We compute the...