The ongoing financial crisis so far cost the German financial sector 38 billion Euros due to losses on its mortgage-related subprime bank exposures. This paper looks for the impact of these losses on the real sector of the economy. First, the financial sector is looked at as part of the overall...

Die vorliegende Studie analysiert vor dem Hintergrund der durch die Finanzkrise bedingten Abschreibungen im Bankensektor die aktuelle Gefahr einer Kreditklemme in Deutschland und ihre möglichen Konsequenzen für die konjunkturelle Entwicklung. In einem Makromodell mit Bankensektor wird dabei...

This paper develops a model to analyze two different bad bank schemes, an outright sale of toxic assets to a state-owned bad bank and a repurchase agreement between the bad bank and the initial bank. For both schemes, we derive a critical transfer payment that induces a bank manager to...