1. Refereed Journal // 2011

    Global Retail Lending in the Aftermath of the US Financial Crisis: Distinguishing between Supply and Demand Effects

    This paper examines the broader effects of the U.S. financial crisis on global lending to retail customers. In particular we examine retail bank lending in Germany taking advantage of a unique dataset of German…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2011

    The Costs of Being Private: Evidence from the Loan Market

    Using a new data set of U.K. syndicated loans, we document a significant loan cost disadvantage incurred by privately-held firms. For identification, we use the distance of a firm’s headquarters to London’s…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2011

    What to Expect from Sectoral Trading, a US-China Example

    In the recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations, sectoral trading was proposed to encourage early action and spur investment in low carbon technologies in developing…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2011

    Anstieg der Lohnungleichheit, Rückgang der Tarifbindung und Polarisierung

    This article aims at describing and discussing the development of wage inequality in Germany in relation to the decline in collective wage bargaining, as this could be the institutional cause for the development…