Der Beitrag erschien in der Fuldaer Zeitung. Martin Gornig sieht die Bauindustrie als Stützpfeiler der coronageplagten deutschen Wirtschaft. Ohne höhere Baukapazitäten rückten die Ampel-Ziele jedoch in weite Ferne. Die Bauwirtschaft in Deutschland hat der Krise auch im zweiten Corona-Jahr getrotzt, obwohl die Branche nicht ganz ohne Blessuren durch die Pandemie kommt. Liefereng-pässe, Materialmangel ...
This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. It compiles a new database of 266,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) and 2016, covering up to 91 countries. The main insight is that, as in equity markets, the returns on external sovereign bonds have been sufficiently high to compensate for risk. Real ...
Am 16. Dezember 2021 jährte sich der zehnte Todestag unseres sehr geschätzten Kollegen Joachim R. Frick. Joachim war gut 20 Jahre Mitarbeiter am SOEP. Markus Grabka erinnert sich: Ich habe ihn im Dezember 1992 bei meinem Bewerbungsgespräch als studentische Hilfskraft in Berlin Dahlem zum ersten Mal erlebt. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt bestand die SOEP-Abteilung aus einer Handvoll von Mitarbeitern, ...
December 16, 2021, marked ten years since Joachim R. Frick’s death. Joachim was part of the SOEP for over 20 years and a deeply valued colleague. Markus Grabka remembers: I first met Joachim in December of 1992. I was being interviewed for a student assistant position at the DIW in Dahlem. At that time, the SOEP had just a handful of staff members, so everyone in the department was there ...
We investigate how internal distribution motives can interfere with the economic objectives of capital controls. In order to do this, we provide a model showing that elite capture can affect optimal debt repatriations and the management of official reserves under capital controls. Relying on these theoretical insights and a wealth of quantitative and qualitative historical evidence, we study one of ...
A number of studies show that there is a link between social comparison and high levels of household debt. However, the exact mechanisms behind this link are not yet well understood. In this paper, we disentangle two mechanisms by performing a lab experiment designed to study the effects of social image concerns and peer information on consumption choices financed through debt taking. We find that ...
