We construct a novel database of monthly foreign exchange interventions for 49 countries over up to 22 years. We build on a text classification approach that extracts information about interventions from news articles and calibrate our procedure to data about actual interventions. This new dataset allows us to document stylized facts about the use of foreign exchange interventions for countries that ...
In this paper, we investigate how European households changed the diversity of their financial portfolios in response to the Great Financial and the subsequent European Debt Crisis. For this purpose we apply a Difference-in-Differences (DiD) approach estimated as a correlated random effects (CRE) model to six waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We find that households ...
There is ample empirical literature centering on the effectiveness of foreign exchange intervention (FXI). Given the mix of objectives and country-heterogeneity, the general lack of consensus thus far is no surprise. We shed light on this debate by conducting the first comprehensive meta-analysis in the FXI literature, with 279 reported effects that stem from 74 distinct empirical studies. We cover ...
This paper exploits unique variation induced by two information treatments on a sample of German households in 2017 and 2018 to evaluate how subjective belief formation about stock market returns affects stock market participation and portfolio choice. I find that on average the information treatments do not shift individual expectations about returns significantly. Additionally, I show that...
While there is a broad consensus in the literature that stock ownership is associated with individual characteristics, such as wealth, income, risk preferences, and financial literacy, less is known about the dynamics of stock market participation (SMP). Major fluctuations in SMP are oftentimes related to political events, economic shocks, and technological disruptions. We discuss the literature...
Der Alfred-Nobel-Gedächtnispreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften geht in diesem Jahr an die drei US-Ökonomen Ben Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond und Philip H. Dybvig. DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher kommentiert die Entscheidung wie folgt:
DIW-Studie nimmt Instrumente der internationalen Klimakooperation unter die Lupe – Industriestaaten verpflichten sich, Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländer bei Klimaschutzanstrengungen zu unterstützen – Konkrete Ausgestaltung der Zusammenarbeit offen - Internationale CO2-Differenzverträge können wichtigen Beitrag zu Klimafinanzierung leisten Die emissionsintensive Industrie ...