Deteriorating public finances around the world raise doubts about countries' abilities to bail out their largest banks. For an international sample of banks, this paper investigates the impact of government indebtedness and deficits on bank stock prices and credit default swap spreads. Overall,...

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has stated that its goal is to foster sustainable homeownership. In this paper, we propose some metrics for evaluating the degree to which the FHA is attaining this goal for first-time homebuyers. This work uses New York Fed Consumer Credit Panel data to...

Sind die so genannten Leerverkäufe Mitverursacher der Finanzkrise und sollten deshalb Wetten auf sinkende Kurse verboten werden? Andre Horovitz, Financial Risk Fitness GmbH, verdeutlicht in seinem Beitrag, dass auch Leerverkäufe und "leer geschlossene" CDS für Unternehmen sinnvoll sein...