The disappointingly slow recovery in the U.S. from the recent recession and financial crisis has once again focused attention on the relationship between financial frictions and economic growth. With bank loans having only recently started growing and still sluggish, some bankers and borrowers...

This paper studies regulatory competition in the banking sector in a model where banks are heterogeneous and taxpayers come up for the losses of failing banks. Capital requirements force the weakest banks to exit the market. This gives rise to a signalling effect of capital standards, as...

Fast jede zweite Familie in Deutschland hat einen Teil ihres Vermögens verloren, weil sie den unsicheren oder gar falschen Versprechen von Finanzdienstleistern glaubte. Private Vorsorge ist ein Muss für viele Bürger, wenn sie nicht in der Altersarmut landen wollen. Doch die meisten fühlen...