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Since the global financial crisis a growing literature stresses that financial intermediaries balance sheet management may reinforce financial market shocks with severe consequences for the real sector of the economy. In this paper we provide empirical evidence for this view from European and German asset markets. GMM estimations as well as dynamic asset pricing models reveal that broker–dealer leverage is procyclical with a positive price of risk and also forecasts future asset returns. Overall, our results provide evidence in favor of the importance of broker-dealers as marginal investors in asset markets.