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Dieses Mal ist alles anders, dieses Mal kann es gar nicht so schlimm werden wie beim letzten Mal. Denn dieses Mal steht die Wirtschaft auf soliden Füßen und außerdem gibt es viel bessere Kontrollmechanismen als beim letzten Mal. Wann immer es in der Geschichte der Menschheit zu Krisen kam, diese oder ähnliche Sätze waren stets zu hören. Doch was ist dran an derartigen Behauptungen?

Nicht besonders viel, haben Kenneth Rogoff und Carmen Reinhart herausgefunden. In akribischer Arbeit haben die beiden Autoren die Finanzkrisen der letzten acht Jahrhunderte in über 66 Ländern...

This book presents evidence that public debts in the advanced economies have surged in recent years to levels not recorded since the end of World War II, surpassing the heights reached during the First World War and the Great Depression. At the same time, private debt levels, particularly those of financial institutions and households, are in uncharted territory and are (in varying degrees) a contingent liability of the public sector in many countries. Historically, high leverage episodes have been associated with slower economic growth and a higher incidence of default or, more generally,...

Ratings, Rating Agencies and the Global Financial System brings together the research of economists at New York University and the University of Maryland, along with those from the private sector, government bodies, and other universities. The first section of the volume focuses on the historical origins of the credit rating business and its present day industrial organization structure. The second section presents several empirical studies crafted largely around individual firm-level or bank-level data. These studies examine (a) the relationship between ratings and the...

The business of credit ratings began in the United States in the early 1900s. Over time, credit ratings have gradually taken on an expanding role, both in the United States and abroad and in official financial market regulation as well as in private capital market decisions. However, in 1999 the Bank for International Settlements (through its Committee on Banking Supervision) proposed rule changes that would provide an explicit role for credit ratings in determining a bank's required regulatory risk capital. Once implemented, this BIS proposal (often referred to as Basel 2) would vastly...