"This comprehensive historical account tells the story of 200 years of financial panics in America, from 1819 up to the current economic downturn of 2020, showing how and why so many financial crises have occurred in the United States and offering solutions to avoiding these sorts of crises...

This study provides an empirical analysis of the impact of the Greek debt crisis on stock returns of U.S. commercial banks. We find that good (bad) news events pertaining to the Greek debt crisis, identified by large changes in the Greek CDS spread, produce insignificant positive (negative)...

Understanding factors affecting the direction of innovation is a central aim of research in the economics of innovation. Progress on this topic has been inhibited by difficulties in measuring distance and movement in knowledge space. We describe a methodology that infers the mapping of the...

The key dynamics of the transatlantic banking crisis are analyzed – with emphasis on the fact that the banking disaster of 2007/08 was not really a surprise –, and the five key requirements for restoring stability and efficiency in the EU/OECD banking sector are highlighted. Most important,...

Hudsons Prognosen erregen weltweit Aufmerksamkeit: als Erster und Einziger hat er den genauen Zeitpunkt vorausgesagt, an dem die fatale Immobilienblase platzen sollte. Eindringlich analysiert er, wie die internationale Finanzwelt die Errungenschaften der klassischen Ökonomie verspielt. An...

We use a new framework to analyze the liquidity trends in the US equity markets, based on the intra-day price trend. The analysis suggests that the proportion of daily price variation explained by jumps (either small or large) is at a historical low. Furthermore while small jumps (which are...

Klappentext: China hat einen atemberaubenden wirtschaftlichen Aufstieg erlebt. Das Land fordert heute die USA und ihre Verbündeten heraus - ökonomisch, militärisch und politisch. Doch der Aufstieg verläuft keineswegs reibungslos: Innenpolitisch kämpft die chinesische Staatsführung mit...