Speculative currency crises seem to have become a common and inevitable phenomenon in the international monetary system. Against this background, various approaches have been developed by economists to cover the broad range of situations in which balance-of-payments crises occurred. Anja Zenker...

Analysten wurde immer wieder vorgeworfen, Aktienkursprognosen systematisch verzerrt zu haben, um den Aktienhandel und das Investmentbankinggeschäft ihres Arbeit gebenden Kreditinstituts zu stimulieren und das Management der analysierten Unternehmen durch gefärbte Berichterstattung zufrieden zu...

The U.S. dollar has served as the key currency of the international economic/financial system for over fifty years. This study assesses the proposition that the series of U.S. current-account deficits over the last twenty years will shortly exhaust the capability of the dollar to continue as the...