This book examines the effect of banking on the real economy and society, focusing on banking supervision as the decisive factor in steering banking activities and determining the social outcome of the game of finance. Banking is like a cardiovascular system for our society. If it functions...

why banks must be supervised? -- How that all come to be? -- Big Depression – events forcing the regulator’s hand -- Great recession- the ugly daughter of deregulation -- The asymmetry -- How can supervision prevent financial crises? .

We use a Diamond/Dybvig-based model with two banks operating in separate regions connected by a common asset market in which banks and sophisticated depositors invest. We study the effect of a potential run (crisis) and subsequent fire sales on the asset price in both the crisis and no-crisis...

Europäische Banken sind gesetzlich verpflichtet, bei ihren Geschäften strenge Regeln zur Risikoabwägung zu befolgen. Doch tatsächlich haben genau diese Regeln erst dazu geführt, dass die Finanzmärkte heiß liefen. Frank Riedel, Professor für Finanzmathematik, erklärt, wie es passieren...