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Increasing Prices, Declining Productivity, higher Markups? – Analysis of Market Conditions in the Construction Industry

The project examines the development of markups in the construction sector against the backdrop of existing strucutral issues and the planned public investment initiative amounting to €500 billion. Inter alia, construction prices have increased significantly more strongly than overall consumer prices since 2010, while labor productivity has declined markedly over the same period. This opposing...

Did Automatic Exchange of Information End Bank Secrecy? Evidence from Aggregate Administrative Data

This paper evaluates the scope and coverage of the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), an international automatic exchange of information regime intended to eliminate bank secrecy and reduce cross-border tax evasion. We obtain new, aggregated CRS data from 26 countries, covering roughly 30% of the global amount reported by the OECD for the year 2022. We first show that cross-border financial wealth continues ...

Government-Made House Price Bubbles? Austerity, Homeownership, Rental and Credit Liberalization Policies, and "Irrational Exuberance" on Housing Markets

Housing bubbles and crashes are catastrophic events for economies, implying the enormous destruction of housing wealth, the risk of financial defaults, construction unemployment, and business cycle downturns. This chapter investigates whether governmental housing policies can affect the propensity of economies to build up speculative house price bubbles. Specifically, we focus on rent and credit deregulation ...

Zeit für Europa beim IWF umzudenken

Assessing the Coverage of the Automatic Exchange of Information under the CRS

The introduction of the automatic exchange of bank information under the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) marked a breakthrough in the fight against global financial secrecy. In this report, we evaluate the scope and coverage of the CRS—in a context marked by limited evidence, primarily due to restricted access to CRS data. For this purpose, we have compiled newly aggregated CRS data from 16 countries, ...

Aktivrente: Steuerentlastungen für Silver Worker

Deutschlands Bedeutung in der Weltwirtschaft: Geschichte, Gegenwart und Ausblick

Deutschland ist zurzeit die drittgrößte Volkswirtschaft der Welt. Doch die Vorstellung damit verbundener Größe ist falsch. Der deutsche Anteil an der Weltwirtschaft beträgt lediglich 4,3 %, in Kaufkraft gerechnet sogar nur 3,2 %, und er wird weiter sinken. Wirtschaftlich bedeutend sind heute allein die USA und China, Deutschland war einmal groß – vor mehr als 100 Jahren. Heute kann Deutschland nur ...

Use It or Lose It: How Cognitive Skills Change with Age

Committed to Flexible Fiscal Rules

We study the implications of fiscal rules for macroeconomic stabilization when countries are hit by adverse exogenous shocks. Exploiting the unpredictability of natural disasters, we document that economies with a fiscal rule absorb these shocks better than those without: the responses of GDP and private demand are significantly higher. This difference is coupled with more expansionary fiscal policy ...

Kognitive Fähigkeiten können durch regelmäßige Anwendung im Alter erhalten bleiben

Bisherige Studien gehen davon aus, dass kognitive Fähigkeiten spätestens ab dem 30. Lebensjahr nachlassen. Einzigartige deutsche Längsschnittdaten zu Kompe¬tenzen zeigen ein anderes Bild: Kognitive Fähigkeiten nehmen im Durchschnitt bis in die Vierzigerjahre stark zu, bevor sie in den Bereichen Lesen und Schreiben leicht und beim Rechnen stärker abnehmen. Darüber hinaus gehen sie im höheren Alter nur ...