Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross-border expansion of firms. But firms may also need external finance to shoulder the costs of entering foreign markets. We develop a model of multinational firms facing real and...

Globalization has affected business cycle developments in OECD countries and has increased activities of firms across national borders. This paper analyzes whether these two developments are linked. We use a new firm-level dataset on the foreign activities of German firms to test whether foreign...

Kreditrisiken haben den größten Anteil am Gesamtrisiko einer Bank.Dennoch spielen Portfoliobetrachtungen bei der Evaluierung von Kreditrisikenbisher eine untergeordnete Rolle. Diese Arbeit untersucht das gemeinsame Ausfallverhalten von Krediten.Insbesondere wird diskutiert, wie...