Die Preise für Immobilien sind in vielen Ländern in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich gestiegen und es wächst die Sorge, dass sich erneut spekulative Preisblasen bilden. Für politische Entscheidungsträger kann es dabei schwer sein, den richtigen Zeitpunkt für regulierende Eingriffe in den Markt zu erkennen. In diesem Bericht wird gezeigt, wie moderne Methoden des maschinellen Lernens genutzt werden können, ...
Systematic differences along the wealth distribution in investment performance will potentially have large consequences for the level and persistence of wealth inequality. These differences in performance are hard to measure except in a few, select countries with detailed information on household portfolios. In this paper we use a modified version of the Global Capital Asset Pricing Model ...
Policy to reduce the European Union’s (EU) carbon footprint needs to be grounded in an understanding of the structure and drivers of both the domestic and internationally traded components. Here we analyse consumption-based emission accounts (for the main greenhouse gases (GHGs)) for the EU, focusing on understanding sectoral contributions and what changes have been observed over the last two decades, ...
