[Einleitung ...] Der weitere Verlauf dieser Arbeit ist wie folgt gegliedert. In Kapitel 2 werden die für die Analyse verwendeten Daten, insbesondere CDS-Spreads und Ratinginformationen, zunächst vorgestellt, während in Kapitel 3 deskriptive Statistiken sowie eine Darstellung des Verlaufs der...

We study the impact of capital regulation on the quality of the banking sector in the presence of heterogeneous banks. Closely related to Morrison and White (2005), we provide a general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous individuals that differ in their ability of successfully completing a...

This paper analyzes the role of corporate culture in the financial industry. Theoretical literature emphasizes the role of corporate culture in the sorting process of workers into firms. We take this argument to the empirics and analyze whether banks that differ in their corporate culture use...

This paper analyzes banks' usage of CDS. Combining bank-firm syndicated loan data with a unique EU-wide dataset on bilateral CDS positions, we find that stronger banks in terms of capital, funding and profitability tend to hedge more. We find no evidence of banks using the CDS market for capital...

We uncover a new channel for spillovers of funding dry-ups. The 2016 US money market fund (MMF) reform exogenously reduced unsecured MMF funding for some banks. We use novel data to trace those banks to a platform for corporate deposit funding. We show that intensified competition for corporate...

When banks are faced with a funding shortage in money market wholesale funding, they partly substitute by tapping other wholesale funding sources. Using auction-level data on large corporate deposits, we trace these substitution effects and their implications, which go beyond the balance sheets...

Freelancing human experts play an important role in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Expert ratings partially reflect the reciprocal network of ICO members and analysts. Ratings predict ICO success, but highly imperfectly so. Favorably rated ICOs tend to fail when more ratings reciprocate prior...