The sovereign-bank nexus played a key role in the 2009-12 European debt crisis by
enabling pernicious dynamics whereby governments and domestic banking sectors …

In this thesis I examine two elements of firm behavior with respect to taxation: efforts to
reduce tax liability, and responses to incentives in the tax code. In the first and second …

Executive Summary Shadow Banking Systems gained widespread attention in the aftermath
of the global financial crisis that triggered in the United States in 2007. By existing partially …