What is the role of supply and demand forces in determining movements in international banking flows? Answering this question is crucial for understanding the international transmission of financial shocks and formulating policy. This paper addresses the question by using the method developed in...

The post-crisis period has seen a considerable shift in the composition and drivers of international bank lending and international bond issuance, the two main components of global liquidity. The sensitivity of both types of flows to U.S. monetary policy rose substantially in the immediate...

Diese Dissertation besteht aus fünf Kapiteln, die alle von den spannenden und intensiven Diskussionen inspiriert sind, welche die politische und ökonomische Agenda der letzten Jahre so eindrücklich geprägt haben. Sie umspannt das Themengebiet europäische Bankenregulierung und deren Effekte...

The existing literature on the role of international capital fl ows for housing markets can be classifi ed into approaches which focus on the macro relationship between the current account and housing prices on the one hand and studies which specify more specific transmission channels on the...

This paper shows that global capital markets cannot, by themselves, achieve net transfers of financial capital between countries and that both the integration of global financial markets as well as the integration of global goods markets are needed to achieve net transfers of capital between...

The study investigates the status of international capital mobility in West Africa using the saving retention coefficient of Feldstein–Horioka hypothesis. The hypothesis is predicated on the fact that, with perfect capital mobility, domestic investment does not depends on domestic savings but...

Das dezentrale Bankensystem in Deutschland ist von Bedeutung für eine ausgeglichene Regionalentwicklung und Krisenresilienz. Dass die Niedrigzinspolitik der EZB, zunehmende Regulierungsanforderungen, die Digitalisierung und Wettbewerbsverschärfung zu einer Herausforderung für Sparkassen und...

Capital flow and commodity cycles have long been connected with economic crises. Sparse historical data, however, has made it difficult to connect their timing. We date turning points in global capital flows and commodity prices across two centuries and provide estimates from alternative data...

This article shows that global financial markets cannot, by themselves, achieve net transfers of financial capital and real interest rate equalisation across countries and that the integration of both global financial markets and global goods markets is needed to achieve net transfers of capital...

Meese and Rogoff (1983) and subsequent studies find that economic fundamentals are apparently not able to explain exchange rate movements, but we argue that this so-called "Exchange Rate Disconnect Puzzle" arose because researchers such as Meese and Rogoff (1983) did not use the right...

This paper shows that global capital markets cannot, by themselves, achieve net transfers of financial capital between countries and that both the integration of global financial markets as well as the integration of global goods markets are needed to achieve net transfers of capital between...

This article shows that global financial markets cannot, by themselves, achieve net transfers of financial capital and real interest rate equalisation across countries and that the integration of both global financial markets and global goods markets is needed to achieve net transfers of capital...