This thesis consists out of three essays on systemic risk in the banking system and stock market contagion. The first essay (Trapp and Wewel, 2013, "Transatlantic systemic risk") investigates which type of systemic risk common shocks or contagion dominated in the US and European banking systems...

The objective of this study is to explore the socio-economic drivers of social entrepreneurship activities at regional-level. In particular, it aims at identifying factors causing regional heterogeneity in terms of social enterprise growth and social impact development in Europe by applying...