This paper investigates in how far monetary policy shocks impact Euro- pean asset markets, conditional on different risk states. It focuses on four different asset classes: equity of industrial firms, equity of banks, high-grade corporate bonds, and high-yielding corporate bonds. We distinguish...

This paper studies risk-taking by European banks. We construct a measure of risk-taking which relates changes in three month ahead expected credit standards for several non-financial private sector categories to risk of the macroeconomic environment banks operate in to reflect whether credit...

Our paper picks up the current controversial debate about increasing (income) inequality due to recent monetary policy measures in major advanced economies. We use a VAR framework identified with sign restrictions to figure out how income in- equality related measures react to monetary policy...

We study the role of monetary policy for the dynamics of U.S. mortgage debt, which is the largest component of household indebtedness. A timevarying parameter VAR model allows us to study the variation in the mortgage debt sensitivity to monetary policy. We find that an identically-sized policy...

Die Einführung des Entgelttransparenzgesetzes (EntgTranspG) im Jahr 2017 zielte auf die Durchsetzung des Gebots der Entgeltgleichheit zwischen Frauen und Männern. Im Zentrum stand der statistisch nicht erklärte Anteil der Entgeltlücke und die daraus abgeleitete Auffassung, dass die...

Das Modul "Arbeitslosengeld" ist ein optionaler Baustein des Mikrosimulationsmodells des IW Köln (STATS). Es zielt darauf ab, die Modellierung einer Arbeitsangebotssimulation zu unterstützen, indem der Anspruch auf Arbeitslosengeld (ALG) abgebildet wird. Dazu werden die Ansprüche von...

In Germany, the labour force is ageing rapidly. At the same time, age heterogeneity within companies is rising. The literature on diversity argues that heterogeneity can have a positive as well as a detrimental effect on team outputs. Our paper sheds light on the impact of age diversity on the...