Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in which housing price changes work as a "wealth effect". In such models, windfall gains in housing always lead to positive changes in consumption. However, this might be a...

The paper presents a critique of loanable funds theory by using simple accounting relationships. It is shown that many economists identify saving and the credit supply by interpreting the macroeconomic saving-investment identity as a budget constraint. According to that interpretation, more...

Der Report betrachtet das Verhalten der Gläubiger - vor allem der Banken - in der Eurokrise. Die größten Gläubiger der heutigen Krisenländer Griechenland, Spanien, Irland, Portugal und Italien sind deutsche und französische Banken. Diese haben 2008 große Verluste in der US-Subprimekrise...

This paper looks at the relation between mortgage credit and housing values. It has become conventional wisdom in policy circles that credit growth led to the housing bubble in the US. However, this statement has not been empirically tested as of yet. The paper uses the Johansen procedure to...

Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in which housing price changes work as a "wealth effect". In such models, windfall gains in housing always lead to positive changes in consumption. However, this might constitute...

Der Report analysiert die Entwicklung der privaten Investitionen in Deutschland. Im Vergleich zum Euroraum hat sich in Deutschland seit 2000 eine große Investitionslücke gebildet. Diese Lücke ist vor allem auf den starken Rückgang der Bauinvestitionen zurückzuführen, während sich die...

There is a consensus among the majority of economists that the credit supply is limited by current household saving. If governments or foreigners ran deficits, they would absorb this limited saving so that firms could not borrow any longer and had to reduce their investment. This is the...

Im Report wird das "Neue Magische Viereck der Wirtschaftspolitik" dargestellt. Es hat vier Ziele: Materieller Wohlstand und ökonomische Stabilität; Nachhaltigkeit der Staatstätigkeit und Staatsfinanzen; soziale Nachhaltigkeit sowie ökologische Nachhaltigkeit. Hinter jedem Ziel stehen...