TY - THES A1 - Bajec, Luka T1 - Three Essays On The Bank Lending Channel T1 - Drei Essays zum Bankkreditkanal N2 - Monetary policy is commonly assumed to impact on commodity demand via relative prices. The bank lending channel (BLC) proposes an additional effect via the quantity of loans. This has found its way into economic textbooks, although it remains empirically controversial. I present various theoretical criticisms of the BLC and its building block, the formal model by Bernanke and Blinder (1988). This model operates with lopsided loan demand, money demand and money supply functions. The logic of the BLC is valid for individual investors who are affected by a cut in bank loans. For a whole sector with a given level of interest rates a reduction of loans does not however dry up investment, but only the holding of money. Since 1988 academics have been using model by Bernanke and Blinder as a work horse to empirically address the question of the quantitative relevance of the BLC. Cecchetti (1995) und Hubbard (1995) summarize the overall evolution of the controversial debate up to then. The data used for the research is mainly from the United States. In this literature review, I mainly focus on the next and more recent cohort of empirical investigations on the BLC in Europe that follow papers by Kashyap and Stein (1995, 2000) and Kishan and Opiela (2000) on U.S. transmission mechanisms. It is crucial that these authors are the first to address the question using individual bank balance sheet data for the U.S. Until now, empirical research has produced largely inconsistent results. This is more revealing as many of these investigations have deficiencies in controlling for other transmission channels that relate to relative prices. The debate on how monetary policy works has not ended: the BLC, which stresses the importance of potential changes in the supply of loans as a result of monetary policy, and its subsequent impact on aggregate demand, became prominent recently, but the concluding empirical evidence is absent. I attempt to contribute to this debate by conducting a cross-section and panel data analysis of developed and developing countries and by choosing the availability of bank loans as a dependent variable. The latter circumvents identification problems that appear when analyzing the response of aggregated bank loans to monetary policy changes. This evidence finds no support for the prediction of the BLC that there is an additional channel of monetary transmission mechanism. KW - Bankkredit KW - Monetäre Ökonomik KW - Zentralbanktheorie KW - Monetary Economics KW - central banks KW - bank loans Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus-12827 ER - TY - THES A1 - Engelen, Christian T1 - Three Essays on Intra-Creditor Coordination Failures in Sovereign Debt Restructuring T1 - Drei Aufsätze zu Koordinationsfehlern unter Gläubigern im Rahmen der Umschuldung von Staatsschulden N2 - This work is comprised of three essays that attempt to contribute to the task of reviewing the prevailing (solely market-based) contractual approach for sovereign debt restructuring. These essays particularly focus on aspects of intra-creditor coordination. Although the content of these essays is interconnected, each unit is a stand-alone entity. Essay I: The latest Argentinean debt restructuring was the first time the resolution of a modern financial crisis was completely handed over to the private financial markets without official intervention by public institutions. This essay argues that the resulting harshest haircut for private creditors in history can be at least partially related to an assurance game played by creditors. It shows that incentive schemes provided by the Argentinean government were factors facilitating this haircut. The analysis suggests that, contrary to the recognition in the literature, the effects of Collective Action Clauses and Exit Consents within a restructuring process are not equal. In the case of Argentina, the inclusion of Collective Action Clauses in the defaulted bonds could have benefited the holdout creditors. Essay II: Experience from events of sovereign debt restructuring over the last decade shows that the prevailing process is mainly shaped by exchange-offers launched by the debtor. This suggests that negotiations for changing the repayment terms of the debt take place in an ultimatum game which centers virtually all bargaining power on the debtor side. Creditors vote according to reservations values that might be influenced by fairness consideration both vis-à-vis the debtor and their fellow creditors. And, as fairness is usually a highly subjective influence, this can result in a heterogeneity of reservation values which might impede effective intra-creditor coordination for the benefit of the debtor. Essay III: Mitigating intra-creditor coordination failures has always been crucial in any proposal for an institutionalized process of restructuring sovereign bonds. However, one source of failure in creditor coordination has not been taken into consideration. The current process of sovereign debt restructuring enables the debtor to launch an exchange offer which provides incentives to inter-temporally discriminate among creditors with different reservation values. Only a creditor representation that can effectively bind in all different creditor types will mitigate this failure and thereby prevent potential conflicts of interests among creditors. Enhancing the current proposal of creditor groups so that creditors can effectively pre-commit can shield the process from this kind of coordination failure. This essay concludes with a proposal for a creation of a creditor representation body which exhibits a similar mode of operation as a celebrated institutionalized creditor representation body in the penultimate century. To summarize the conclusions drawn from these essays, the contractual approach is not yet able to guarantee effective creditor coordination due to a lack of a comprehensive and forceful permanent creditor representation. Establishing such a permanent representation body would replicate the institutional development experienced during the last heydays of bonds as a source of emerging market financing. This would lead to a significant improvement in creditor coordination. Moreover, since the result of a potential debt restructuring draws back to the ex-ante lending decision by the individual investor, this improvement could contribute to the welfare-enhancing effects of external financing by private creditors for developing economies. N2 - Die vorliegende Arbeit umfasst drei Aufsätze, die versuchen, einen Beitrag zur Debatte über die Ausgestaltung eines (rein marktbasierten) vertraglichen Ansatzes zur Umschuldung von Staatsanleihen aufstrebender Volkswirtschaften zu leisten. Ein Schwerpunkt der Arbeit liegt dabei auf dem Problem mangelhafter Koordination unter den Anleihebesitzern. Obwohl eine inhaltliche Verbindung besteht, ist jeder dieser Aufsätze als eine eigenständige Einheit zu betrachten. Aufsatz I: Bei der jüngsten Umschuldung argentinischer Staatsanleihen kam es zum ersten Mal in der neueren Geschichte von Finanzkrisen dazu, dass die Krisenbewältigung ein vollständig marktbasierter Prozess ohne Intervention des öffentlichen Sektors war. In diesem Aufsatz wird dargestellt, in welcher Form der hieraus resultierende höchste Forderungsverzicht von privaten Investoren in der Geschichte der Umschuldung staatlicher Anleihen zumindest teilweise auf eine mangelhafte Koordination im Rahmen eines Assurance-Spiels unter den Gläubigern zurückgeführt werden kann. Außerdem bestehen für den Schuldner im Rahmen eines solchen Spiels Anreize, die hieraus entstehenden Probleme in der Koordination der Anleihebesitzer durch bestimmte vertragliche Elemente zu seinem Vorteil auszunutzen. Die Analyse zeigt, dass im Gegensatz zur Wahrnehmung in der Literatur die Effekte von so genannten „Exit Consents“ und „Collective Action Clauses“ nicht identisch sind. Hätten die Anleihen Argentiniens derartige Mehrheitsklauseln aufgewiesen, hätte die Koordination unter den Gläubigern hiervon profitiert. Aufsatz II: Umschuldungsverhandlungen des letzten Jahrzehnts haben gezeigt, dass Angebote des Schuldners zum Tausch alter gegen neue Anleihen das bis dato vorherrschende Prozedere für die Anpassung der vertraglichen Rückzahlungsvereinbarungen darstellt. Die Verhandlungen zwischen Gläubiger- und Schuldnerseite über die Details dieser Anpassung bewegen sich dabei im Rahmen eines Ultimatum-Spiels, bei dem der Schuldner praktisch über die gesamte Verhandlungsmacht verfügt. Gläubiger entscheiden über die Annahme eines solchen Angebotes aufgrund eines Reservationswertes, welcher durch Fairnessempfindungen gegenüber dem Schuldner sowie den übrigen Gläubigern beeinflusst werden kann. Die Subjektivität solcher Empfindungen kann dabei zur Heterogenität der Reservationswerte führen, welche sich wiederum negativ auf die Effektivität der Koordination unter Anleihebesitzern auswirken kann. Der Schuldner wäre dann in der Lage, diese mangelhafte Effektivität zu seinem Vorteil auszunutzen. Aufsatz III: Ein zentraler Aspekt verschiedener Vorschläge für einen institutionalisierten Prozess der Restrukturierung von Staatsanleihen ist seit jeher die Vermeidung von Mängeln der Koordination unter den Anleihegläubigern. Ein Umstand findet hierbei bisher jedoch noch nicht ausreichend Beachtung: Der momentan vorherrschende Prozess von Umschuldungsverhandlungen ermöglicht es dem Schuldner, den Gläubigern Angebote über den Austausch der entsprechenden Anleihen zu unterbreiten. Für das Schuldnerland bietet die Gestaltungsfreiheit derartiger Angebote jedoch einen Anreiz, zwischen verschiedenen Typen von Gläubigern zeitlich zu diskriminieren. Obwohl dies für den Schuldner vorteilhaft ist, führt eine Diskriminierung zu einem verlängerten und damit ineffizienten Umschuldungsprozess. Lediglich eine effektive Gläubigervertretung, welche alle Gläubiger in ein gemeinsames Votum mit einbinden kann, wäre in der Lage, dies zu verhindern. Eine Erweiterung der aktuellen Vorschläge zur Bildung von „Creditor Groups“ könnte hierbei helfen, den Umschuldungsprozess vor derartigen Mängeln der Gläubigerkoordination zu schützen. Daher skizziert dieser Aufsatz eine derartige Gläubigervertretung, welche in ihrer Funktionsweise Ähnlichkeit mit einer vergleichbaren Institution im vorletzten Jahrhundert hat. Abschließend lassen sich damit die Aussagen der Aufsätze wie folgt zusammenfassen: Der aktuelle Status des rein marktbasierten Ansatzes der Umschuldung von Staatsanleihen aufstrebender Volkswirtschaften ist aufgrund des Mangels einer umfassenden und wirkungsvollen Gläubigervertretung noch nicht in der Lage, eine effektive Koordination unter den Anleihebesitzern zu gewährleisten. Die Einrichtung einer derartigen Gläubigervertretung würde die institutionelle Entwicklung während der Hochzeit der Anleihemärkte im vorletzten Jahrhundert nachzeichnen, welche zu einer signifikanten Verbesserung in der Gläubigerkoordination geführt hat. Und da das Ergebnis eines potentiellen Umschuldungprozesses auch einen Einfluss auf die ex-ante-Investitionsentscheidung des einzelnen Anleihebesitzers hat, könnte dies einen Beitrag zu den wohlfahrtserhöhenden Effekten einer Außenfinanzierung aufstrebender Volkswirtschaften durch private Anleihegläubiger leisten. KW - Öffentliche Schulden KW - Politische Institution KW - Umschuldung KW - Umschuldungsverhandlungen KW - Koordinationsfehler KW - Vertraglicher Ansatz KW - Internationale Finanzarchitektur KW - Emerging Market Staatsanleihen KW - Sovereign Debt Restructuring KW - Coordination Failures KW - Contractual Approach KW - International Financial Architecture KW - Emerging Market Bonds Y1 - 2007 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus-11960 ER - TY - THES A1 - Riedel, Christoph T1 - Three Essays on Extremes and Non-Linearities in Asset Pricing T1 - Drei Aufsätze über Extrem-Werte und Nicht-Linearitäten im Rahmen der Bepreisung von Wertpapieren N2 - The dissertation consists of three self-contained essays, with a focus on empirical capital market research. The first essay "Time-Varying Conditional Market Returns: Is Variance or Tail-Risk Priced", empirically investigates the question whether there is a positive relationship between aggregate market tail risk and expected returns. Based on the classical risk return trade-off, intuition suggests a statistically positive relationship between aggregate market tail risk and expected returns. The paper contributes to previous literature in several ways. First it offers an statistically well founded method for aggregate tail risk estimation in relying on EVT. In the second place it empirically determines a positive relationship between lagged aggregate market tail risk and market returns, based on a time-series approach, which can be further characterized by a non-linear dependence structure. The second essay "Credit Cycle Dependent Spread Determinants in Emerging Sovereign Debt Markets", empirically estimates non-linear dependence structures of determinants of changes in sovereign bond spreads. Empirical results of the paper clearly identify a non-linear influence of determinants of changes in emerging markets sovereign credit spreads. The statistical and economical significance as well as the sign of some determinants changes with respect to the underlying sovereign credit cycle. The third paper "Modeling the Dependence Structure between Aggregate Market Tail Risk and Expected Returns" takes on the results of the first paper regarding the non-linear positive dependence structure between aggregate market tail risk and expected returns. In order to implement a more profound analysis of the non-linear pattern, the paper employs several copula functions to model the conditional bivariate time series dependence structure. The inspection of the empirical results clearly indicates the Clayton copula function to provide the best formula describing the conditional dependence structure. KW - Internationaler Kapitalmarkt KW - Kapitalmarktforschung KW - Aktienmarkt KW - Staatsanleihe KW - Kopula KW - Extreme Value Theory KW - Emerging Market Sovereign Debt KW - Copula KW - Markov Regime Switching Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus-27172 ER - TY - THES A1 - Ehrl, Philipp T1 - Essays on wage and productivity disparities: empirical studies with a regional focus in Germany and Brazil T1 - Aufsätze über Lohn- und Produktivitätsdisparitäten: Empirische Studien mit regionalem Fokus in Deutschland und Brasilien N2 - The present thesis is based on four articles in the areas of labor economics, regional science and international trade. I make use of different micro-level data sets to evaluate reasons for performance disparities between firms and between workers and evaluate the interrelation of these disparities with characteristics of local labor markets. Chapter 1 of this thesis provides a discrimination between the effects of several agglomeration externalities on firms’ total factor productivity. The identification of TFP is not trivial, however. I thereby correct for biases due to unobserved output prices and the endogeneity of agglomeration economies. Traditional reasons, such as specialization, diversity and size of the county, as well as the more detailed Marshallian agglomeration economies, namely knowledge spillovers and labor market pooling, are jointly tested. It turns out that labor market pooling is the quantitatively most important agglomeration mechanism. It is captured by the correlation of the occupational composition between one county-industry and the rest of the county. The intuition behind it is that a plant readily finds suitable staff if sectors, which employ similar workers, have a large extent in the same region. Labor market pooling is still the dominant agglomeration force if the spatial boundaries of regions are changed. In general, the data demonstrate that the strength of agglomeration economies varies largely between sectors. Only for a subset of industries, some positive evidence is detected for knowledge spillovers. Chapter 2 analyzes labor market pooling in greater detail, but with a slightly different modeling than in chapter 1. Here, the central aspect of labor market pooling is based on the quality of workers and firms. The main questions are if there is a systematic matching in the labor market and if this matching pattern creates advantages for both parties. I devote attention to the identification of accurate quality measures: plants' total factor productivity and workers' fixed effect. Two different methods then yield evidence in favor of positive assortative matching. The correlation between both quality measures is positive. Wage gains amount up to 4% when both quality levels are equal. In a fairly general matching model, this shape of the wage curve arises due to complementarities of qualities in the production function. When generally higher productivities and wages in dense regions (caused by agglomeration economies and sorting) are not controlled for, the strength of matching and wage gains are overestimated. I also find that regional differences in matching quality cannot be attributed to the local density and unemployment rate. Chapter 3 applies several regression-based decomposition methods to analyze the impact of region-, worker-, firm- and sector-specific determinants on the wage level and the continuous increase in wage inequality between 1995 and 2007 in Germany. In contrast to prior studies, more than 50% of the wage dispersion and almost the entire increase in wage inequality are explained in this approach. Altogether, the entire growth of wage dispersion occurs within regions and changes in the composition of wage determinants are minor compared to changes in their returns. I find that occupational attributes are the most important wage determinant. Changes in the firm size premium in combination with assortative matching also depress wages in the bottom of the distribution while they increase wages at the top. Workers with an unemployment record or an occupation in the service, construction and logistics sectors particularly experience falling wages. Chapter 4 studies the effect of an expansion of imported intermediate inputs on establishments’ average task intensities and employment size in a middle-income country. I use confidential matched employer-employee data and information on trade transactions for the universe of Brazilian firms. Propensity Score Matching indicates that import expansion leads to an overall employment growth, higher intensities in routine and non-routine manual tasks and an increased share of intermediates exports. Thus my findings point out that intermediates imports represent onshored instead of offshored tasks. This result remains unchanged regardless of whether imports from high- or low-wage countries are considered. KW - Totale Faktorproduktivität KW - Matching KW - Offshoring KW - Agglomerationsvorteile KW - Onshoring KW - Task trade KW - Lohnungleichheit KW - skill biased technical change KW - wage inequality KW - decompositions KW - agglomeration economies KW - unobserved skill Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus-27346 ER - TY - THES A1 - Eickholt, Mathias T1 - Three Essays on Individual Investors’ Early Exercise Behavior in the Fixed-Income Market T1 - Drei Essays über das vorzeitige Ausübungsverhalten von Privatinvestoren im Fixed-Income Markt N2 - Diese Arbeit untersucht, wie Privatinvestoren vorzeitige Kündigungsrechte in strukturierten Zinsprodukten nutzen. Als Grundlage für die Analyse dient hierbei ein neuartiger, nicht öffentlich verfügbarer Datensatz, der über einen Zeitraum von circa 13 Jahren Entscheidungen von mehr als 800.000 Privatinvestoren über ein weiteres Halten oder eine vorzeitige Kündigung von Putable Bonds (Bundesschatzbriefen) abbildet. Das Ziel der Arbeit ist es, das Verständnis von finanziellen Entscheidungsstrategien von Privatinvestoren theoretisch und empirisch zu erweitern sowie mögliche Unterschiede innerhalb dieser Investorengruppe und im Vergleich zu anderen Kapitalmarktakteuren zu identifizieren. Darüber hinaus soll die Arbeit mögliche Handlungsfelder für Emittenten und Banken, welche vergleichbare Finanzprodukte anbieten, aufzeigen. KW - Individual Investors KW - Early Exercise KW - Exercise Strategy KW - Putable Bond KW - Decision Costs Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus-27427 ER - TY - THES A1 - Ebner, Stefan T1 - Essays on the Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions T1 - Die Ökonomie von Fusionen und Übernahmen N2 - This dissertation builds on the economic research about M&A and the effects on the merging plants' performance. In particular, the objective of this thesis is to shed some light on questions about causal effects of M&A on plants' performance, taking firm heterogeneity into account. Since there is no typical merger (Tichy, 2001) it distinguishes between acquiring and target plants, and between horizontal and non-horizontal mergers. The thesis focuses on two major research questions: do plants with specific characteristics self-select in merger activity, and is there a causal effect of M&A on the merging plants' performance parameters, in particular on labor productivity, employment, and skill-intensity? The results allow drawing some conclusions about the reasons why plants merge. The thesis consists of four chapters. All contributions have in common that they focus on questions about the effects of M&A on plant performance. That is, the thesis does not discuss questions about the effects of M&A on industry and aggregation concentration levels, or the effects of M&A on social welfare. Each chapter in this thesis can be read separately, because they are based on stand-alone papers. Hence, all chapters have their own introduction and conclusion. The structure and storyline of this thesis and the interaction of the chapters are as follows: the first chapter is a survey about M&A and acts as an introduction to this research field. The second chapter describes propensity score matching as a newer microeconometric evaluation method and explains its implementation in the econometric computer software STATA. In a certain sense, the second chapter serves as a preparation for a better understanding of the econometric analysis performed in chapters three and four, which form the heart of the thesis. They both discuss questions about self-selection of plants into merger activity, and questions about causal effects on plants' performance. In particular, the third chapter focuses on the effects on merging plants' labor productivity, while the fourth chapter focuses on the effects on both employment and skill-intensity. Even if both chapters discuss the effects on different performance parameters, they are similar with respect to motivation, structure, and estimation strategy. Hence, there is some inevitable overlapping between these two chapters which are based on stand-alone papers as mentioned above KW - Mergers and Acquisitions KW - Nürnberg / Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung KW - propensity score matching KW - labor productivity KW - employment KW - skill intensity KW - German plants KW - self-selection KW - acquirers KW - targets KW - horizontal M&A Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus-26961 ER - TY - THES A1 - Kremer, Andreas T1 - Delegated Portfolio Management - Optimal Portfolio Policies under Compensation, Capital Flow and Price Influence T1 - Delegiertes Portfolio Management - Optimale Portfolio Strategien bei Vergütung, Kapitalfluss und Preiseinfluss N2 - This work investigates the intertemporal portfolio optimization of professional portfolio managers. It analyzes whether the special conditions of delegation in which portfolio managers make investment decisions - compensation depending on assets under management, capital flow depending on past performance, and influence on prices - can explain the observable investment patterns of portfolio managers. It further evaluates optimal portfolio policies from the primary investor’s perspective. N2 - Die Arbeit untersucht intertemporale Portfolio Optimierung von professionellen Portfolio Managern. Sie analysiert, ob die speziellen Bedingungen der Delegation, unter denen Portfolio Manager Investmententscheidungen treffen - Vergütung in Abhängigkeit vom verwalteten Vermögen, Kapitalfluss abhängig von vergangener Leistung, und Preiseinfluss - empirische Investitionsmuster erklären können. Sie bewertet ferner die resultierenden Portfolio Strategien aus der Sicht eines privaten Investors. KW - Portfoliomanagement KW - Unvollkommener Kapitalmarkt KW - Kapitalmarkt KW - Kapitalmarkteffizienz KW - Dynamische Optimierung KW - Markov-Ketten-Monte-Carlo-Verfahre KW - Preiseinfluss KW - Trinomialbaum KW - portfolio management KW - capital market KW - efficiency KW - markov chain approximation KW - trinomial tree model Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus-26919 ER - TY - THES A1 - Beck, Lotte T1 - Anticorruption in Public Procurement - A Qualitative Research Design T1 - Antikorruption in öffentlichen Ausschreibungen. Ein qualitativer Forschungsansatz N2 - This qualitative approach to research develops a case oriented design in order to examine risks of corruption in public procurement. The method involves expert interviews as the most important data collection tool and explains how to examine the information by means of a qualitative content analyze. In order to develop rigor results, the concepts of external validity, construct validity, internal validity and reliability are applied. The research design was adopted in two field investigations: A first project focuses on the challenges and chances for anticorruption when awarding contracts in a competitive dialogue. For this purpose, data was collected in an investigation of the German construction market. The results are presented in form of 16 propositions, also including policy recommendations and approaches for reform. In the framework of a further case based research project, the paper analyzes the organizational structure and working process of "China's Tangible Construction Market" (TCM). The TCM is an administrative institution where a bid inviter can register in order to announce a public need and conduct a procurement procedure at a fixed location. The analysis of expert interviews conducted during an investigation of the Chinese construction market shows that the TCM offers strong institutional support that can be helpful to curb corruption in public procurement N2 - In dieser Arbeit werden im Rahmen von qualitativen Studien Korruptionsrisiken bei der Vergabe von öffentlichen Aufträgen untersucht. Die Arbeit besteht im Wesentlichen aus drei Teilen: In einem ersten Teil wird ein qualitativer Forschungsansatz basierend auf Experteninterviews und einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse entwickelt. Im Zentrum des zweiten Teils der Arbeit steht die Analyse des Wettbewerblichen Dialogs. Hierfür wurden 23 Experteninterviews mit Vertretern des deutschen Bauwesens geführt, um Chancen und Risiken für die Korruptionsprävention bei Anwendung dieses jüngsten europäischen Ausschreibungsverfahrens herauszuarbeiten. Der dritte Teil der Arbeit befasst sich mit der chinesischen Einrichtung "Tangible Construction Market" (TCM), die die Organisation von öffentliche Vergabeverfahren im chinesischen Bauwesen unterstützt. Durch die Analyse von 20 Experteninterviews wird der Arbeitsprozess des TCMs beschrieben. Es wird untersucht, wie der TCM Korruption vorbeugen kann und an welchen Stellen Verbesserungspotential ausgeschöpft werden kann. KW - Öffentliche Ausschreibung KW - Korruption KW - Prävention KW - Bauwesen KW - China KW - Antikorruption KW - Wettbewerblicher Dialog KW - Experteninterview KW - Inhaltsanalyse KW - Fallstudien KW - Anticorruption KW - Procurement KW - construction KW - interview KW - competitive dialogue KW - Tangible Construction Market Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus-26801 ER - TY - THES A1 - Breitenfellner, Bastian T1 - Three Essays on Credit Risk with a Special Focus on the Subprime Financial Crisis T1 - Drei Aufsätze über Kreditrisiken mit einem besonderen Fokus auf die Subprime-Finanzmarktkrise N2 - The dissertation "Three Essays on Credit Risk with a Special Focus on the Subprime Financial Crisis" consists of three self-contained essays. At the core of the dissertation is the market for credit risk and its role during and after the recent subprime financial crisis. In particular, it is dedicated to the following research questions: - What are the causes of the subprime financial crisis? - Which role did credit markets and credit derivatives play during the crisis? - How might the crisis be resolved? - What is the impact of the crisis on market participants perception of credit risk? - How can complex credit derivatives be modeled in a way that allows an understanding of their inherent risk? N2 - Die Dissertation "Three Essays on Credit Risk with a Special Focus on the Subprime Financial Crisis" besteht aus drei unabhängigen wissenschaftlichen Aufsätzen. Dabei steht insbesondere der Markt für Kreditrisiken sowie seine Rolle während und nach der jüngsten Subprime-Finanzmarktkrise im Zentrum. Insbesondere widmet sich die Dissertation den folgenden Forschungsfragen: - Wodurch wurde die Subprime-Finanzmarktkrise ausgelöst? - Welche Rolle spielten dabei der Markt für Kreditrisiken und Kreditderivate? - Wie läßt sich derartigen Krisen begegnen? - Wie hat die Krise die Beurteilung von Kreditrisiken durch die Marktteilnehmer beeinflusst? - Wie lassen sich komplexe Kreditderivate dergestalt abbilden, dass die mit ihnen verbunden Risiken leichter transparent gemacht werden können? KW - Credit Risk KW - Financial Crisis KW - Credit Derivatives KW - Securitization Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus-27051 ER -