What are the macroeconomic consequences of changing aggregate lending standards in residential mortgage markets, as measured by loan-to-value (LTV) ratios? In a structural VAR, GDP and business investment increase following an expansionary LTV shock. Residential investment, by contrast, falls, a...

Does time-varying business volatility affect the price setting of firms and thus the transmission of monetary policy into the real economy? To address this question, we estimate from the firm-level micro data of the German IFO Business Climate Survey the impact of idiosyncratic volatility on the...

What are the macroeconomic consequences of changing aggregate lending standards in residential mortgage markets, as measured by loan-to-value (LTV) ratios? In a structural VAR, GDP and business investment increase following an expansionary LTV shock. Residential investment, by contrast, falls, a...

How does a monetary union alter the impact of business cycle shocks at the household level? We develop a Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian model of two countries (HANK2) and show in closed form that a monetary union shifts the adjustment to a shock horizontally - across countries - within the...

In den 24 Jahren seines Bestehens hat der Euro eine Finanzkrise, eine Staatsschuldenkrise, eine globale Pandemie und eine Energiekrise erlebt - und auch überlebt. Mit Hilfe eines Modells, dass auf die Haushaltsebene abstellt, zeigt dieser Wochenbericht, dass die Stabilität der Währungsunion...

In the 24 years since its introduction, the euro has experienced a financial crisis, a government debt crisis, a global pandemic, and an energy crisis-and survived. Using a model focusing on households, this Weekly Report shows that the monetary union's stability is rooted in the fact that the...

In the 24 years since its introduction, the euro has experienced a financial crisis, a government debt crisis, a global pandemic, and an energy crisis-and survived. Using a model focusing on households, this Weekly Report shows that the monetary union’s stability is rooted in the fact that the...

Der Euro wurde vor mehr als 20 Jahren eingeführt und wird auch seinen 25. Geburtstag erleben. Angesichts der schweren Krisen, die der Euro als gemeinsamer Währungsraum in den letzten Jahren zu überstehen hatte, ist das ein überraschender Erfolg. Unter anderem machten Populist*innen in den...