Abstract This paper analyzes the relationship between stock prices, house prices and consumption using data for 16 OECD countries. The panel data analysis suggests that the long-run responsiveness of consumption to permanent changes in stock prices is higher for countries with a market-based...

Summary The extent of the demographic change in Europe and especially Germany is dramatic and will deeply affect future labor, financial and goods markets. The expected strain on public budgets and especially social security has received prominent attention, but aging poses many other economic...

The literature devoted to the export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis, which is of utmost importance for policymaking in emerging countries, provides mixed evidence for the validity of the hypothesis. Recent contributions focus on the time-dependence of the relationship between export and output...

We investigate fragility linkages among national banking sectors in the euro area during the crisis years 2007–2010. We find that their number increased sharply with the outbreak of the subprime crisis in the US in the first half of 2007 and then remained at a relatively constant and high...

European insurance and reinsurance undertakings are facing the advent of a new regulatory framework. In the current proposal for its technical specifications under the pillar 1 standard formula, sovereign debt of European Union (EU) member states is treated as risk-free. This article examines...

The extent of demographic changes in Europe is much more drastic than in the United States. This paper studies the effects of population aging on the interactions between economic growth and living standards in Europe with labor market and pension reform, behavioral adaptations, and...

We combine new developments in decision theory with a standard consumption-based asset-pricing framework. In our model the efficient market hypothesis is violated if and only if agents’ beliefs express ambiguity about the stochastic process driving economic fundamentals. Asset price...