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Die Europäische Investitionsbank : subsidiärer Finanzintermediär oder Umverteilungsinstrument?
Heinemann, Friedrich - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000138864
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Intergenerational transfers and wealth in the Euro-area : the relevance of inheritances and gifts in absolute and relative terms
Tiefensee, Anita; Westermeier, Christian - 2016
Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well-being of households. Key determinants of private wealth include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440820
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The effects of government bond purchases on leverage constraints of banks and non-financial firms
Kühl, Michael - 2016
This paper investigates how government bond purchases affect leverage-constrained banks and non-financial firms by utilising a stochastic general equilibrium model. My results indicate that government bond purchases not only reduce non-financial firms' borrowing costs, amplified through a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541061
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The IMF to the rescue : did the euro area benefit from the fund's experience in crisis fighting?
Dullien, Sebastian; Fritz, Barbara; Mühlich, Laurissa - 2016
The paper analyses how the IMF brought its experience gained in emerging market sovereign debt crises in the troika’s handling of the euro crisis. We link models of multiple equilibria with the IMF's experience made in Latin American crises in the 2000s. We examine subsequent changes in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548057
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Welfare effects of TTIP in a DSGE model
Engler, Philipp; Tervala, Juha - 2016
Several studies have analyzed the trade and output effects of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union, but our paper is the first attempt to study its welfare effects. We measure the welfare effect of TTIP as the percentage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527321
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National economic impacts of an EU environmental policy : an applied general equilibrium analysis
Conrad, Klaus; Schmidt, Tobias F. N. - 1995
the European Union (EU). For this purpose we use linked applied general equilibrium models (AGE) for eleven EU member …, employment and inflation in member countries, and the cost and benefits of a cooperative approach to adhere to a EU target of … quantify the economic impact for the, EU by introducing a EU-wide tradable permit system, free of charge and based on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011620808
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Währungsunion und deutsche Kapitalmarktzinsen
Heinemann, Friedrich - 1996
Since the negotiation of the Maastricht Treaty in December 1991 expectations on the new European currency could possibly influence European interest rates. The focus of this paper is both on the theoretical and empirical analysis of the link between European Monetary Union (EMU) and German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621678
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Die Europäische Investitionsbank : subsidiärer Finanzintermediär oder Umverteilungsinstrument?
Heinemann, Friedrich - 1992
Die Europäische Investitionsbank (EIB) mobilisiert in quantitativ bedeutendem Ausmaß Finanzmittel für EG-Politikfelder außerhalb des EG-Haushalts. Die von der Bonität des Schuldners abhängige implizite Zinssubvention ist wohlfahrtstheoretisch nicht zu rechtfertigen. Es ist zu vermuten,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621697
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The effect of conventional and unconventional euro area monetary policy on macroeconomic variables
Halberstadt, Arne; Krippner, Leo - 2016
We investigate the e ect of monetary policy on European macroeconomic variables using a small-scale vector autoregression (VAR) and the "Effective Monetary Stimulus" (EMS). The EMS is a monetary policy metric obtained from yield curve data that is designed to consistently reflect the overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011578396
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Why do girls' and boys’ gender-(a)typical occupational aspirations differ across countries? : how cultural norms and institutional constraints shape young adolescents' occupational...
Leuze, Kathrin; Helbig, Marcel - 2015
aspirations of 15-yearold pupils in 29 EU and OECD countries. Based on socialization and rational choice approaches we develop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280756