This paper evaluates whether the Germany economy is currently affected by a credit crunch, i.e. a supply-side restriction of loans that is not in line with market interest rates and profitability of investment projects. With help of a disequilibrium-model, we calculate a credit supply and a...

Die "Asiatic Pacific Economic Cooperation" (APEC) hält vom 20. bis 23. November 1996 ihre nun schon achte Ministerkonferenz in Manila ab. Im unmittelbaren Anschluß (25.11.1996) findet das vierte informelle Treffen der Regierungschefs der Mitgliedsländer der APEC statt. Dieser Zusammenschluß...

The pass-through of market rates to retail interest rates is generally found to be particularly slow in Germany compared to other countries. One popular explanation is the organisation of the banking system in three strictly segregated "pillars": savings banks, credit cooperatives and private...

We examine the dynamics of bank lending to the private sector for countries of the Euro area by applying a Markov switching error correction model. We identify for Belgium, Germany, Ireland and Portugal stable, mean reverting regimes and unstable regimes with no tendency to return to the long...

In the aftermath of the Great Recession, the Euro Area turned into a deep financial and currency crisis. Depending on their economic structures, however, member countries have been affected in different ways. Performing a growth accounting for Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal,...

Der Aufschwung in Deutschland wird sich in der mittleren Frist fortsetzen. Die gesamtwirtschaftliche Expansion, die derzeit vom gesunkenen Ölpreis, der Abwertung des Euro und der sehr expansiv ausgerichteten Geldpolitik kräftige Impulse erhält, dürfte sich aber im Verlauf des...