Stehen die USA vor einer Rezession und wenn ja, hat die europäische Politik Grund zur Sorge? Wie groß ist das Risiko für die europäische Wirtschaft und welche Gegenmaßnahmen sollten in Europa eingeleitet werden? Andreas Rees, UniCredit, Deutschland, sieht die US-Wirtschaft nicht kurz vor,...

An economy's ability to resist adverse shocks, such as an economic recession or natural disaster, is associated with its financial system structure due to different countercyclical funding capabilities. This paper uses a novel database of bank headquarter locations in a cross-country comparison...

The Paris Agreement established a new mechanism by which a country can offset some of its emissions reductions in other countries. Its design is still under negotiation. While taking advantage of cheaper abatement opportunities enables efficiency gains, the impact on the price volatility in the...

We use event study regressions to compare the impact of EU monetary versus fiscal policy announcements on government bond spreads of ten euro member countries. Our motivation is to evaluate which of the two players - the ECB or the EU fiscal level - has been more crucial for the stabilization of...