Using exchange rates futures instead of forwards completes the maturity spectrum of the correlation between the spot return and the premium. The correlation decreases with increasing maturity, presumably due to a latent risk premium. We hypothesize that the influence of the unobserved risk...

We quantify the causal link between exchange rate movements and sovereign risk of 16 major emerging market economies (EMEs) by means of structural vector autoregressive models (SVARs) using data from 10/2004 through 12/2016. We apply a novel data based identification approach of the structural...

In August 2022, the US Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a comprehensive piece of legislation aiming to stimulate the US economy and to increase its resilience. At an estimated 430 billion euros, it is a massive government investment and spending program in the welfare state,...

Im August 2022 hat der US- Kongress ein umfangreiches Bundesgesetz, den Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), verabschie- det, das der US-Wirtschaft zu mehr Wachstum und Resilienz verhelfen soll. Es ist ein massives staatliches Investitions- und Ausgabenprogramm in den Sozialstaat, in die bundesweite...