Market participants often suspect that large traders have a disproportionate effect on financial markets, increasing the aggressiveness of market responses. Prior studies have shown that the impact of a large trader on a currency crisis depends positively on his "size" and informational...

Financial markets are to a very large extent influenced by the advent of information. Such disclosures, however, do not only contain information about fundamentals underlying the markets, but they also serve as a focal point for the beliefs of market participants. This dual role of information...

Small and medium-sized firms often obtain capital via a mixture of relationship and arm's-length bank lending. We show that such heterogeneous multiple bank financing leads to a lower probability of ineefficient credit foreclosure than both monopoly relationship lending and homogeneous multiple...

Im Mittelpunkt dieser Arbeit steht die Analyse der Vor- und Nachteile einer geglätteten versus aktuellen Informationsbasis in einem theoretischen Modell. Am Beispiel stabiler Agency-Ratings und volatiler marktbasierter Ratings zeigt sich, dass die Effekte der Berichtsmethode von den...