The difficult situation of the German banking sector at least according to the basic tenor of many contributions is raised to the threatening ranks of the "disease" the Japanese banking industry is suffering from. Such a statement labelling "German banks Turning Japanese" is the very issue of a...

Wealth transfer effects between stockholders and bondholders on the announcement date of changes in a firm's credit rating have primarily been examined a) for one type of security; b) on US capital markets; and c) by applying standard event study methods. In contrast to these investigations, we...