This paper investigates increased liquidity provision by market makers resulting from their ability to reduce balance sheet encumbrance through the use of central counterparties (CCPs). The introduction of the Basel III leverage rule constitutes a shock to market makers' balance sheets and thus...

We conducted a comprehensive analysis on the sequential introductions of dynamic and static volatility interruptions (VIs) in the Korean stock markets. The Korea Exchange introduced VIs to improve price formation, and to limit risk to investors from brief periods of abnormal volatility for...

In order to reach climate neutrality by 2050, the European Union is taking action in the form of extensive sustainability regulations with the aim to push the private sector towards sustainable economic activities. In this context, a new instrument to finance a company's sustainability...

As the debt ceiling episode unfolds, we highlight a sharp increase in activity across the U.S. credit default swaps (CDS) market and infer the likelihood of a U.S. default from these market prices. Beginning in January 2023, we document a significant increase in U.S. CDS trading activity and...

Using microdata on stock-level lending positions from German mutual funds, we show that active funds use the equity lending market to obtain information about short sale demand. Funds reduce long positions in response to these demand signals, which allows fund managers to front-run public...

Before the global financial crisis, the assistance of a lender of last resort was traditionally thought to be limited to commercial banks. During the crisis, however, the Federal Reserve created a number of facilities to support brokers and dealers, money market mutual funds, the commercial...

Vor über vier Jahren wurde an der Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse der -Neue Markt- eingerichtet. Seither konnte er beachtliche Erfolge verbuchen. Seit einem Jahr kommt es allerdings nicht nur zu Kursrückgängen, sondern auch zu zahlreichen Kurseinbrüchen. Trotzdem sollte nach Meinung von Prof....

Ungeachtet des Maastricht-Vertrags wird vielerorts in Europa versichert, dass man eine Zahlungsunfähigkeit Griechenlands abwenden wird. Dies wird in erster Linie den Gläubigern griechischer Staatsanleihen nutzen und ist im Kern die gleiche Konstellation, die auch der weltweiten Finanzkrise...

In seinem Kommentar befasst sich Manfred Borchert, Universität Münster, mit der Auswirkung der schlechten Bewertung von griechischen Staatsanleihen auf die Bilanzen der europäischen Banken.

Systemic risk events constitute an important issue in current financial systems. A leading course of action used to mitigate such events is identification of systemically important agents in order to implement the prudential policies in a financial system. In this paper, a bi-level...