Mit der Zulassung von REITs wird nun auch in Deutschland ein attraktives, schon weltweit stark genutztes Produkt der indirekten Kapitalanlage in Immobilien verfügbar sein. Für private und institutionelle Investoren gilt es, die ihren Anlagezielen adäquaten Produkte zu identifizieren. Dies...

In this book Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information, he uses a variety of simple models to illuminate the economic forces that bear on specific social security policy issues. The...

The first chapter of this dissertation, coauthored with Martin Eichenbaum and Riccardo Bianchi-Vimercati, addresses the question: how sensitive is the power of fiscal policy at the ZLB to the assumption of rational expectations? We do so through the lens of a standard NK model in which people...