Market distress can be the catalyst of a deleveraging wave, as in the 2007/08 financial crisis. This paper demonstrates how market distress and deleveraging can fuel each other in the presence of adverse selection problems in asset markets. At the core of the detrimental feedback loop is agents'...

I develop a framework of the buildup and outbreak of financial crises in an asymmetric information setting. In equilibrium, two distinct economic states arise endogenously: "normal times", periods of modest investment, and "booms", periods of expansionary investment. Normal times occur when the...

Mit der zu verzeichnenden Internationalisierung der Kapitalmarktkommunikation geht eine Ausrichtung der Wirtschaftsprüfung an internationalen Prüfungsnormen einher. Jochen C. Theis geht der Frage nach, wie der individuelle Kapitalmarktteilnehmer Informationen verarbeitet, die ihm im Rahmen der...