Grundlagen -- Offenlegungsrichtlinie -- Rahmenbedingungen der Risikopublizität -- Gestaltung der externen Risikoberichterstattung -- Synergiepotenziale -- Projektumsetzung -- Entwicklungstendenzen und Optimierungsbedarf -- Zusammenfassung.

This book asks a fundamental question, that is, whether "somebody in charge" could have prevented or solved the problem leading up to our current financial crisis. This book explores and answers that question from a scholarly and academic economic viewpoint

Credit Risk Measurement in the Context of Basel II -- Concentration Risk in Credit Portfolios and Its Treatment Under Basel II -- Model-Based Measurement of Name Concentration Risk in Credit Portfolios -- Model-Based Measurement of Sector Concentration Risk in Credit Portfolios -- Conclusion

This book explores consumer protection in the major financial markets in the world and provides an international comparison among the countries of different cultural background and economic development. Each chapter describes the major issues of financial consumption in the selected country and...

There is a new and now extensive literature analyzing government policies for financial stability based on models with endogenous borrowing constraints. These normative analyses often build upon the concept of constrained efficient allocation, where the social planner is constrained by the same...

This book is the thirteenth volume in the International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series which explores the latest developments in political economy. A collection of eight papers, the book concentrates on the deregulation of domestic financial markets and discusses financial...

Bewertungsaspekte der Geschäftsstrategien europäischer Banken -- Methoden der Unternehmensbeurteilung von Banken -- Interpretation der Bankrechnungslegung -- Implikationen von Ratings für die Bewertung von Banken und Bankenratingsysteme -- Gesamtbanksteuerung und Kreditrisikomanagement --...

We define the notion of a 'de facto fiscal space' of a country as the inverse of the tax-years it would take to repay the public debt. Specifically, we measure the outstanding public debt relative to the de facto tax base, where the latter measures the realized tax collection, averaged across...

During the global financial crisis 2007-2009 fiscal policy was widely used as a stabilization tool. Policymakers allowed a large build-up of public debt resulting from both automatic and discretionary expansionary measures. At the same time, calls for policy coordination stressed that...

This paper discusses three policy tools to mitigate jobless recoveries during financial crises: inflation, real currency depreciation, and credit-recovery policies. Using a sample of financial crises in Emerging Market economies, we document that large inflationary spikes appear to help...