Hetzer erkannte 2003 in "Tatort Finanzmarkt" (BA 12/03) kriminelle Machenschaften der Banken und ihre Fortentwicklung. Der kritische Experte wurde wegen abfälliger Bemerkungen über Innenminister Schily 2002 als Ministerialrat entlassen und arbeitet seitdem in leitender Funktion im Amt für...

"Describes the economic, political and legal antecedents of financial crises in the western market economies. By describing how these events developed in the past and how the markets can be used to gauge the threat of future contagion, the book provides a roadmap for how we can avoid financial...

According to theory, market concentration affects the likelihood of a financial crisis in different ways. The “concentration-stability” and the “concentrationfragility” hypotheses suggest opposing effects operating through specific channels. Using data of 160 countries for the period...