A historical comment on US housing subsidies including Fannie & Freddie contingent fiscal cost written back in 2003 Just replace figures.
Plus a Y2K WB paper reviewing experiences of countries cutting back housing finance subsidies
Sept 2010 Rescuing German hybrid (i.e. equity) capital owners of banks at immense fiscal costs, a first approximation (Deutsch)
July 2010 Paper on crisis issues and reform needs of the Pfandbrief system that channels a substantial amount of German cross-border investments (Deutsch)
May 2010 Comment on US covered bond design from an international perspective responding to draft legislation submitted by Congressman Garrett
April 2010 Review of Leo Mueller's book 'Bankraeuber' regarding the causes and handling of the German banking crisis by government and regulators, for Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Deutsch)
March 2010 Comment on the reasons for Germany's ambiguity in dealing with the Greek debt problem
March 2010 Comment on the new covered bond law bill proposal launched by Congressman Garrett for the United States
March 2010 Comment on Germany's huge capital exports and financial market strategy (in German); FT Alphaville Blog post upcoming
February 2010: FT Alphaville Blog entry on German bank exposure in sovereign credit in the so-called PIGS countries
February 2010: follow-up study on hedonic methods in house price analysis with Europace data for Germany (German)
November 2009: Presentation at FDIC Conference on Regulatory Reform on German financial sector issues
October 2009: Presentation at CEPS Working Group on Bank Resolution on German financial sector issues, Brussels
May 2009 Interview with Chris Whalen, Institutional Risk Analytics, on Landesbanken and their role in the German financial crisis
May 2009 Paper for German Bundestag, Finanzausschuss, on the Specific German Causes of the German Banking Crisis (Deutsch)
February 2009 Presentation on Global Financial Crisis Causes and Policy Responses (Deutsch)
December 2008 Article for The International Economy on European banking sector crisis and the creation of a European Deposit Insurance System
November 2008: Hypoport Horizonte conference presentation on financial crisis (Deutsch)
November 2008 Tagesspiegel (Berlin) comment about the Ackermann-Steinbrueck dispute over the German financial crisis (Deutsch)
October 2008 Article for Europace Newsletter on interest rate risk exposure of German mortgage lenders (Deutsch)July 2008 Policy paper for IFC on housing finance impact in emerging markets
May 2008 Handelsblatt comment on Landesbanken and US subprime losses (deutsch)
February 2008 Handelsblatt comment on the role of German banking supervision during the financial crisis (deutsch)May 2008 World Bank conference presentation on subprime crisis and mortgage consumer protection in Emerging Markets, Washington DC
October 2007 Eurocatalyst 2007 conference award for content, Madrid
October 2007 European Federation of Bausparkassen conference presentation on US market crisis and implications for transition countries, Prague
August 2007 Presentation given at europace conference on US mortgage market crisis, potsdam (Deutsch)
...with a little puzzle for German speakers
July 2007 Presentation given at Bruegel on EU Mortgage Market Integration, Brussels
June 2007 Presentation on rental housing in Emerging Markets, given at the Wharton School, Philadelphia
