The rise of a crisis-prone banking sector and its political power has received significant attention following the most recent financial crisis. The crisis sparked a growing interest in understanding how and why we have created a world of large, unstable banks. Excessive banking activity arose...

Die Arbeit stellt eine erste theoretische Analyse der Wirksamkeit und möglicher Probleme einer marktbasierten Eigenkapitalregulierung in Form einer regulatorischen Nachschusspflicht dar. Hart und Zingales (2011) schlagen vor, dass Finanzinstitute zusätzliches Eigenkapital aufnehmen sollen,...

In this dissertation, I study international financial crises. For this purpose, I build two models. In the first model, I focus on financial crises in developing, large open economies where foreign debt with various maturities and issue dates is available. The objective is to measure the...

This dissertation was written by Christopher Weber during his time as a research assistant at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich. It was handed in at the department of Economics at the LMU Munich in July 2016. The goal of the thesis is to...

Das Vertrauen der Verbraucher in die Finanzdienstleistungsbranche hat in den letzten Jahren stark abgenommen und befindet sich auf einem Tiefpunkt. Schuld an dieser Situation sind oftmals die Strukturen der verkaufsorientierten Finanzberatung. Ein häufig genanntes Problem in diesem Zusammenhang...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: To date, there has been significant research completed on the topic of corporate financial distress. Two pioneering researchers in the field of predicting financial distress was Beaver in 1966 and Altman in 1968. More recent research, based on companies listed on the JSE has...

This dissertation presents two essays on Markov-Switching dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models. The first essay is "Perturbation Methods for Markov-Switching Models," which is co-authored with Juan Rubio-Ramirez, Dan Waggoner, and Tao Zha. This essay develops an perturbation-based...

The 1980s and 1990s have been marked with a series of financial and banking crises all over the world. This turned the attention of economists to such questions as how a financial system should be structured in order to reduce the vulnerability of an economy to the risk of a crisis, or what...

Magistro tezių tyrimo objektas – JAV finansų krizės priežastys ir pamokos ateičiai. Pagrindinis darbo tikslas – kritiškai įvertinti JAV finansų krizę sukėlusius veiksnius, remiantis austrų verslo ciklų teorija, bei rasti ir pateikti pasiūlymus, kaip turi būti valdoma ekonomika,...

This dissertation studies the optimal regulatory response to financial crises. The first two chapters focus on prevention of financial crises, and the third chapter focuses on resolution of financial crises.Chapter 1 develops a quantitative theory of overborrowing based on a systemic risk...