This paper studies the effects of financial liberalization and banking crises on growth. It shows that financial liberalization spurs on average economic growth. Banking crises are harmful for growth, but to a lesser extent in countries with open financial systems and good institutions. The...

Der internationale Finanzmarkt leidet derzeit unter den tiefgreifendsten Störungen seit der Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929. Wo liegen die Ursachen für die Krise? Wurden die Chancen für eine frühzeitige Eindämmung verpasst? Sind die verbreiteten Diagnoseansätze und die ergriffenen Maßnahmen...

Der internationale Finanzmarkt leidet derzeit unter den tiefgreifendsten Störungen seit der Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929. Wo liegen die Ursachen für die Krise? Wurden die Chancen für eine frühzeitige Eindämmung verpasst? Sind die verbreiteten Diagnoseansätze und die ergriffenen Maßnahmen...

Der internationale Finanzmarkt leidet derzeit unter den tiefgreifendsten Störungen seit der Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929. Wo liegen die Ursachen für die Krise? Wurden die Chancen für eine frühzeitige Eindämmung verpasst? Sind die verbreiteten Diagnoseansätze und die ergriffenen Maßnahmen...

We show how the interbank payment system can become illiquid following wide-scale disruptions. Two forces are at play in such disruptions—operational problems and changes in participants’ behavior. We model the interbank payment system as an n-player game and utilize the concept of a...

Banking system is known to be vulnerable to self-fulfilling crises that are caused by depositors’ coordination failure. We show that transparency regulation may prevent systemic crises by eliminating the possibility of the coordination failure. In principle, transparency regulation in our...

In this paper we evaluate the transmission of the US subprime crisis to emerging markets. Our interest in this topic is partly related to the widespread view that prior to the current crisis many emerging market countries had undertaken reforms that were designed to, and would in fact, insulate...

Modern macroeconomic models have been widely criticised as relying too much on rationality and market efficiency. However, basically their predictions about this crisis are being borne out by events. Crashes are an integral part of an efficient market capitalism and are brought on by swings in...

We provide a first attempt to include off-balance sheet, implicit insurance to SIFIs into a consistent assessment of fiscal sustainability, for 27 countries of the European Union. We first calculate tax gaps à la Blanchard (1990) and Blanchard et al. (1990). We then introduce two alternative...