Die Turbulenzen um Banken, Staatsschulden und den Euro verwirren Politiker, Journalisten und Bürger es hat den Anschein, als sei Hysterie ein Rohstoff der Kasinoökonomie. Dabei sind viele Mythen in Umlauf: Wird Deutschland zum Zahlmeister Europas? Leben wir wirklich über unsere Verhältnisse?...

This paper aims an empirical investigation of uncertainty in the Euro Zone as well as the US. For this purpose I conduct a factor analysis of uncertainty measures starting in 2001 until the end of 2011. I use survey-based data provided by the ECB and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia as...

Since portfolio management relies on the association of portfolio diversification, analyzing the spillover between the United States (US) and Asian-Pacific financial markets has become more critical. If Asian stock markets have low or negative correlations with each other and/or the US market,...

Using the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), this study examines the influence of institutional quality on the impact of financial inclusion on the stability of 157 banks in 8 ASEAN countries from 2010 to 2020. The results show that financial inclusion negatively hurts bank stability, and this...