This paper provides a unified framework for endogenizing two distinct organizational structures of financial intermediation. In one structure, called Bank, the intermediary is financed by issuing debt contracts to investors, and thus resembles commercial banks. In the other structure, called...

The paper presents a model where financial intermediaries invest in a safe and a risky, two-period asset -with aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks on tire risky asset. The realization of returns is privately observed by banks, which offer deposit contracts, with a promised return at t = 1, the...

​This paper reconsiders the formal estimation of bank risk using the variability of the profit function. In our model, point estimates of the variability of profits are derived from a model where this variability is endogenous to other bank characteristics, such as capital and liquidity. We...

Institutionelle Investoren und nachhaltige Kapitalanlagen - Marktsituation und Stimmung -- Vermögensmanagement mit nachhaltigen Kapitalanlagen -- Best Practices nachhaltiger Kapitalanlagen im Bereich von Banken -- Best Practices nachhaltiger Kapitalanlagen im Bereich von Stiftungen -- Best...

Wie der Finanzplatz Deutschland in Zukunft aussehen wird, haben namhafte Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis in dieser Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gerke skizziert. Die Themen: theoretische und experimentelle Finanzmarktforschung, Corporate Governance, Rating, Kostenmanagement und...