This paper evaluates the impact of a large macroeconomic shock on poverty. In particular, we use longitudinal data from the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) comprising almost two million individuals from 29 European countries in order to quantify changes in poverty...

The paper considers the problem of volatility co-movement, namely as to whether two financial returns have perfectly correlated common volatility process, in the framework of multivariate stochastic volatility models and proposes a test which checks the volatility co-movement. The proposed test...

The US financial crisis and the later eurozone crisis have substantially impacted capital flows into and out of financial centers like Switzerland. We focus on the pattern of capital flows involving the Swiss banking industry. We first rely on balance-of-payment statistics and show that net...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the network characteristics of two interrelated interbank money markets and their impact on overall market conditions. Based on transaction data from the unsecured and secured Swiss franc money markets, the trading network structures are assessed...

In this paper, we introduce a new Bayesian approach to explain some market anomalies during financial crises and subsequent recovery. We assume that the earnings shock of an asset follows a random walk model with and without drift to incorporate the impact of financial crises. We further assume...

Diese Dissertation besteht aus fünf Kapiteln, die alle von den spannenden und intensiven Diskussionen inspiriert sind, welche die politische und ökonomische Agenda der letzten Jahre so eindrücklich geprägt haben. Sie umspannt das Themengebiet europäische Bankenregulierung und deren Effekte...

Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, einen Wissensfundus über CSR innerhalb der Finanzdienstleistungs-Industrie zu etablieren, mit einem klaren Fokus auf CSR Verlauf der jüngsten Finanzkrisen. In den letzten Jahren hat sich CSR zu einem wichtigen Konzept für den Bankensektor entwickelt, vor allem...

'Leaning against the wind' (LAW) with a higher monetary policy interest rate may have benefits in terms of lower real debt growth and associated lower probability of a financial crisis but has costs in terms of higher unemployment and lower inflation, importantly including a higher cost of a...