Purpose The purpose of the paper is to examine the differences in the impact of financial stress in advanced and emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach The authors employ a panel vector autoregression model (PVAR) for a comparative analysis of the relationship between financial stress,...

Using several different datasets obtained from the German Central Bank (Deutsche Bundesbank) and the German Federal Statistical Office, we provide empirical evidence that savings and loan contracts (SLCs) are a macrosocial phenomenon that smooths housing demand by setting countercyclical...

Die LBS Bausparkasse Schleswig-Holstein-Hamburg AG untersucht in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Marktforschungsunternehmen F + B regelmäßig den Markt für Grundstücke, Gebrauchtimmobilien und Neubauten im Großraum Hamburg und in Schleswig-Holstein.