We present evidence from a repeated survey on risky asset holdings carried out on a representative sample of the German population six times between April and June 2020. Given the size of the Covid-19 shock, we find little evidence of portfolio rebalancing in April 2020. In May, however, individual investors started buying heavily, parallel to market recovery. The cross-section shows large differences ...
We study the state-dependent trading behavior of financial institutions in the oil futures market, using structural vector autoregressions with Markov switching in heteroskedasticity. We consider two states of the world: tranquil and turbulent. We decompose the observable time-varying price volatility during the period 2006M6–2016M5 into changes in the slopes of traders’ demand curves and into changes ...
Using a new SOEP-IS data module on digitalization including information on the prevalence of AI use in the workplace, this report shows that the term “artificial intelligence” often remains inscrutable in the day-to-day work of many employees. When asked directly about the use of digital systems with the term “artificial intelligence,” around 20 percent of the working respondents in the sample indicate ...
DIW-Studie untersucht Auswirkung auf Inflationsrate, wenn selbstgenutztes Wohneigentum in Inflationsberechnung des Euroraums einbezogen wird – EZB plant dies ab 2026 – Anteil der Wohnkosten hätte sich im Verbraucherpreiskorb verdoppelt – Inflationsrate läge im Schnitt um 0,3 Prozentpunkte höher, auch in Deutschland – EZB hätte aber wohl ihre Geldpolitik nicht ...
