Wen rettet der Rettungsschirm? Uns jedenfalls lässt er im Regen stehen und bringt uns um unser Erspartes und unsere Rente. Der streitbare Ökonom Walter Krämer enthüllt, wie die deutschen Sparer und Rentner in den nächsten zehn Jahren enteignet werden und wer davon profitiert: die Gläubiger...

Using novel data on individual euro area banks' balance sheets this paper shows that exposure to stressed European sovereigns manifested in a liquidity shock to their international funding through two channels: (i) a contraction in cross-border funding, and (ii) a contraction in US wholesale...

We study determinants of sovereign portfolios of Spanish banks over a long time-span, starting in 2008. Our findings challenge the view that banks engaged in moral hazard strategies to exploit the regulatory treatment of sovereign exposures. In particular, we show that being a weakly capitalized...