Intro -- Titelseite -- Impressum -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Die Autoren -- Vorwort -- Einleitung -- 1 Die Evolution des CDS-Marktes -- 1.1 Credit Default Swaps (CDS) als Antwort auf die Savings & Loan-Krise in den USA -- 1.2 Der CDS-Markt wird erwachsen: Die Etablierung der 2003er-Definitionen und...

This study applies a novel way of measuring, quantifying and modelling the systemic risk within the financial system. The magnitude of risk spill over effects is gauged by introducing a specific weighting scheme. This approach originally stems from spatial econometrics. The methodology allows...

The thesis of Kristina Reimer provides a comprehensive analysis of asymmetric cost behavior (also known as cost stickiness) by discussing its origin and development in the theoretical and empirical research from the 1920s of the past century up until today. Further, using an empirical approach,...

The finance literature looks at a number of factors to explain risk premia in corporate debt, such as liquidity effects, jump-to-default risk, and contagion risk. Stochastic recovery rates as a source of systematic risk have not received much attention so far, most likely due to the difficulties...