Dieser Beitrag ist am 17. August in der ZEIT ONLINE–Kolumne „Fratzschers Verteilungsfragen“ erschienen. Die Tragödie von Genua hat viele schockiert. Die traurige Wahrheit ist, dass nicht nur in Italien, sondern auch in Deutschland die öffentliche Infrastruktur immer stärker verfällt. In kaum einem westlichen Industrieland investiert der Staat so wenig ...
Dieser gemeinsame Gastbeitrag mit Alexander Kriwoluzky ist am 17. August in der Welt erschienen. Das Versprechen eines Autokraten, die einheimische Währung und Wirtschaft seien sicher, ist häufig das verlässlichste Anzeichen dafür, dass eine Währungs- und Finanzkrise unmittelbar bevorsteht. So war es bei Russlands Boris Jelzin 1998, Indonesiens Suharto 1997, Venezuelas ...
Top income inequality rose sharply in the United States over the last 40 years but increased only slightly in economies like France and Japan. Why? This paper explores a model in which heterogeneous entrepreneurs, broadly interpreted, exert effort to generate exponential growth in their incomes. On its own, this force leads to rising inequality. Creative destruction by outside innovators restrains...
The form of forward guidance matters for its effectiveness in anchoring expectations about the future path of policy rates. We report cross-country evidence about the impact of different types of forward guidance on the reactiveness of markets to macroeconomic news and on disagreement across forecasters, and show that timecontingent forward guidance over a short horizon and open-ended forward...
We investigate the role played by the media in the expectations formation process of households. Using a novel news-topic-based approach we show that the news types the media choose to report on are good predictors of households' stated ination expectations. In turn, in a noisy information model setting, augmented with a simple media channel, we show that the underlying time series properties of...
We assess the empirical validity of the trilemma (or impossible trinity) in the 2000s for a large sample of advanced and emerging economies. To do so, we estimate Taylor-rule type monetary policy reaction functions, relating the local policy rate to real-time forecasts of domestic fundamentals, global variables, as well as the base-country policy rate. In the regressions, we explore variations in...
Power generation from lignite and hard coal was responsible for more than a quarter of German greenhouse gas emissions in 2016. Of all federal states, North Rhine-Westphalia is by far the largest carbon emitter. The Growth, Structural Change and Regional Development Commission (also known as “Coal Commission”) among others are currently debating alternative pathways toward a coal phaseout ...
Power generation from lignite and hard coal was responsible for more than a quarter of German greenhouse gas emissions in 2016. Of all federal states, North Rhine-Westphalia is by far the largest carbon emitter. The Growth, Structural Change and Regional Development Commission (also known as “Coal Commission”) among others are currently debating alternative pathways toward a coal phaseout to achieve ...
DIW Berlin: Der Kohleausstieg steht und fällt mit Nordrhein-Westfalen Nur ein forcierter Ausstieg aus der Stromerzeugung mit Braun- und Steinkohle kann das Erreichen des Klimazieles für den Energiesektor für das Jahr 2030 in Deutschland noch sicherstellen. Dabei kommt Nordrhein-Westfalen als größtem Emittenten unter den Bundesländern eine Schlüsselstellung zu. ...
