Kommt der große Crash an den Finanzmärkten, wenn einige große Hedge-Fonds pleite gehen? Und werden demnächst deutsche Unternehmen in großer Zahl von Privatinvestoren übernommen, die Mitarbeiter scharenweise entlassen, die Produktion ins Ausland verlagert, damit enorm hohe...

Will the finance markets experience a crash when some of the big hedge funds go bust? And will we soon be seeing large numbers of German businesses taken over by private investors who then dismiss droves of employees and relocate production abroad so that expectations of enormously high yields...

Do financial crises radicalize voters? We study Germany's banking crisis of 1931, when two major banks collapsed and voting for radical parties soared. We collect new data on bank branches and rm-bank connections of over 5,500 firms and show that incomes plummeted in cities affected by the bank...