We quantify the role of financial factors behind the sluggish post-crisis performance of European firms. We use a firm-bank-sovereign matched database to identify separate roles for firm and bank balance sheet weaknesses arising from changes in sovereign risk and aggregate demand conditions. We...

In this paper, we investigate the temporal dynamics of correlations between sentiment indices worldwide. Employing the tools of Random Matrix Theory (RMT) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA), our paper aims to extract latent information embedded in the interactions between economic and...

We study the role of various trader types in providing liquidity in spot and futures markets based on complete order-book and transactions data as well as cross-market trader identifiers from the National Stock Exchange of India for a single large stock. During normal times, short-term traders...

The extensive harm caused by the financial crisis raises the question of whether policy- makers could have done more to prevent the build-up of financial imbalances. This paper aims to contribute to the field of regulatory impact assessment by taking up the revived debate on whether central...

This book develops a new theoretical approach to the explanation of systemic financial crises in industrial and emerging market countries. In contrast to standard models, the present cyclical approach is consistent with the following three stylized facts. Firstly, systemic financial crises are a...

Die finanzmarktbezogenen und makroökonomischen Implikationen von Vermögenspreisbewegungen haben in letzter Zeit zu unübersehbar großer Aufmerksamkeit in akademischen und politischen Kreisen geführt, und zwar bedingt durch die letzten Boom-Bust-Zyklen auf den Aktien- und aktuell auf den...

Hohe und weiter steigende Bewertungsniveaus an Aktien- oder Immobilienmärkten werden von Beobachtern aus Wirtschaft, Politik, Medien und der akademischen Welt oft als Vermögenspreisinflation ("Asset Inflation") bezeichnet und als ein wirtschaftspolitisches Problem interpretiert, zu dessen...

In both the subprime crisis and the euro-area crisis, regulators imposed bans on short sales, aimed mainly at preventing stock price turbulence from destabilizing financial institutions. Contrary to the regulators' intentions, financial institutions whose stocks were banned experienced greater...