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...

Introduction -- Efficient markets and central banks? -- Money, banks and central banks -- Stable and unstable markets -- Deceiving the diligent -- On (central bank) governors -- Minsky meets Mandelbrot -- Beyond the efficient market fallacy -- Concluding remarks

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...

Eine globale Finanzkrise mit noch unabsehbaren Auswirkungen für Geldmärkte und Wirtschaft beherrscht die Schlagzeilen der nationalen und internationalen Presse. Auf höchster politischer Ebene werden hektisch Eindämmungsmaßnahmen beschlossen; schwindelerregende Summen sind zur Rettung...