This paper analyzes empirically the recent Asian financial crisis using high frequency data of exchange rates and stock indices of the Philippines and Thailand. Utilizing standard time-series techniques, this study confirms that there is evidence that developments in some sectoral...

Nachdem 2008 die Finanzmärkte weltweit einbrachen, wurde in Verbriefungen eine der Hauptursachen für den Flächenbrand gesehen. Der Verbriefungsmarkt trocknete aus, weil das Vertrauen in dieses Finanzinstrument verloren gegangen war. Damals attestierte man der Finanzinnovation Verbriefung...

Using a unique dataset that matches banks with their client firms, we investigate the differences between foreign and domestic banks in a developing country. In particular, we are interested in examining how foreign banks solve the information asymmetries that characterize lending relationships...

Der vorliegende Aufsatz untersucht die Ursachen von Finanzmarktkrisen anhand entsprechender Vorkommnisse in Thailand, Mexiko und Tschechien, um risikoreiche Konstellationen für Emerging Markets zu identifizieren. Als Modell wurde der Ansatz von Sachs/Tornell/Velasco (1996) gewählt, der durch...

After the financial markets slumped worldwide in 2008, securitizations were seen as a major cause of the conflagration. The securitization market dried up because this financial instrument was no longer trusted. At the time, no one thought securitizations had any future as a financial...

The risk of a sustained acceleration of inflation due to the expansionary monetary and fiscal policies in the wake of the global recession seems low, if the central banks reduce the money supply rapidly enough as soon as the crisis abates and if governments present credible measures to...

An overly expansionary monetary policy stance (particularly in the USA) fuelled speculation on stock markets; when the bubble burst, economies fell into recession. These mechanisms are explained in a theoretical model with three inter-acting markets for money, equities and goods.

The burst of the real estate bubble in the USA was a key factor of the financial market crisis. For banks, a slump in real estate prices is more dangerous than a stock market crash since real estate is the most important collateral for bank loans and house ownership is much more widespread...

Any analysis which limits the causes of the financial and economic crisis to either market failure or to the failure of the state can only be viewed as superficial. The causes are rather a combination of both these factors. Had there been a more clearly defined division between the role of the...

Since the onset of the banking crisis numerous proposals for an improvement of the financial system have been developed. The focus is on a reorientation of banking and financial market regulation. There is a consensus that the regulatory framework will have to be strengthened by macro-prudential...