Benoît Cœuré has been a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank since 1 January 2012. He is responsible for International and European Relations, Market Operations and the Oversight of Payment Systems. He is the Chairman of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) of the Bank for International Settlements, and has held this position since...
Viele Bundesländer haben nach der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise spezielle Konsolidierungsprogramme für finanzschwache Kommunen aufgelegt. Mit dem Programmstart zeigten sich bei den teilnehmenden Kommunen deutliche Verbesserungen bei den Finanzkennzahlen. Allerdings ergeben sich als Reaktion auf die Programme auch einige adverse Effekte. Das betrifft insbesondere eine unterdurchschnittliche Entwicklung ...
Problem gambling is a serious socioeconomic problem involving high individual and social costs. In this article, we study risk preferences of problem gamblers including their risk attitudes in the gain and loss domains, their weighting of probabilities, and their degree of loss aversion. Our findings indicate that problem gamblers are systematically more risk taking and less sensitive toward changes ...
The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among various fields in economics. However, until now, issues of data availability have restricted a broader and cross-national perspective on the topic. Based on rich sets of harmonized household survey data, we contribute to filling this gap by computing time series for several indexes of ...
Dieser Beitrag ist am 4. September in der ZEIT ONLINE–Kolumne „Fratzschers Verteilungsfragen“ erschienen. Die Ausschreitungen in Chemnitz sind ein schlechtes Omen für Sachsens Zukunft. Die Unfähigkeit oder der Unwille von Polizei und Politik, den rechtsradikalen Kräften Einhalt zu gebieten und für Sicherheit zu sorgen, sind nicht nur ein politisches Armutszeugnis. ...
Policy makers have long favored command-and-control (CAC) methods to tackle environmental damage. The number of CAC policies devoted to environmental protection has increased steadily since the 1950s and have been a large part of the overall portfolio of environmental laws andregulation in the industrialized world. Schmitt and Schulze (2011) document that between 1970 and 2011 the two most prevalent ...
