In this paper, we study the impact of extreme events on the loan portfolios of the Greek banking system. These portfolios are grouped into three separate groups based on the size of the bank to which they belong, in particular, large, medium, and small size. A series of extreme scenarios was...

The global financial crisis shattered the conventional wisdom about how financial markets work and how to regulate them. Authorities intervened to stop the panic-short-term pragmatism that spoke volumes about the robustness of mainstream economics. However, their very success in taming the...

Untersuchungsgegenstand des Projekts sind die Übertragungsmechanismen (contagion) der Risiken in Finanzsystemen durch Verhaltenssymmetrien (z.B. durch Risikomodelle und ihre regulierte Umsetzung), Intransparenz (z.B. über Beteiligungsgesellschaften etwa im Bereich Private Equity) und Moral...