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  • Weekly Report 1 / 2010

    Investments: Women Are More Cautious than Men because They Have Less Financial Resources at Their Disposal

    Experts on investments and financial products assume that women are less amenable to risks and therefore put their money into secure investment products. A current study conducted by the DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research) challenges this view. The study demonstrates that men and women are equally likely to take a chance on risky investments - assuming that they have the same financial ...

    2010| Oleg Badunenko, Nataliya Barasinska, Dorothea Schäfer
  • Externe Monographien

    Finanzmärkte nach dem Flächenbrand: warum es dazu kam und was wir daraus lernen müssen

    Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010, 260 S. | Klaus F. Zimmermann, Dorothea Schäfer. Mit Beiträgen von Oleg Badunenko, Nataliya Barasinska, Amelie F. Constant, Christian Dreger, Rolf Ketzler, Mechthild Schrooten
  • Diskussionspapiere 1040 / 2010

    Driven by the Markets? ECB Sovereign Bond Purchases and the Securities Markets Programme

    After the dramatic rescue package for the euro area, the governing council of the European Central Bank decided to purchase European government bonds - to ensure an “orderly monetary policy transmission mechanism”. Many observers argued that, by bond purchases, national fiscal policies could from now on dominate the common monetary policy. This note argues that they are quite right. The ECB has indeed ...

    2010| Ansgar Belke
  • Diskussionspapiere 1041 / 2010

    The Impact of Real Oil Price on Real Effective Exchange Rate: The Case of Azerbaijan

    Using quarterly data from 2000-2007 and applying Error Correction Model and Johansen Co-integration Approaches I estimate the impact of real oil price on the real exchange rate of Azerbaijani manat. Estimation outputs derived from these approaches are very close to each other and indicate that real oil price has statistically significant positive impact on real exchange rate in the long-run. Besides, ...

    2010| Fakhri Hasanov
  • Diskussionspapiere 1003 / 2010

    Konsolidierung der Staatsfinanzen

    Die Konsolidierung der Staatsfinanzen nach der gegenwärtigen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise wird eines der zentralen wirtschaftspolitischen Themen der nächsten Jahre sein: Die Regelungen zur "Schuldenbremse" sehen für den Bundeshaushalt bis 2016 einen annähernd ausgeglichenen Haushalt vor, und auch die Länderhaushalte sollen bis 2020 weitgehend konsolidiert werden. Dadurch ergibt sich ein erheblicher ...

    2010| Viktor Steiner
  • Weekly Report 14 / 2010

    Microlending: Is There Demand for Such Loans in Germany?

    A lack of financial means is viewed as a key reason why small businesses fail. Therefore, also in Germany several institutions tried to establish microloans as a financing tool. A first empirical study, building a benchmark for similar studies in Western Europe, shows that about 15 percent of all self-employed individuals would be interested in getting access to microloans. The study also demonstrates ...

    2010| Alexander S. Kritikos, Christoph Kneiding
  • Economics of Security Working Paper Series 35 / 2010

    Radical Islamic Terrorism in the Middle East and Its Direct Costs on Western Financial Markets

    Close examination of the behaviour of participants in financial markets in the aftermath of terrorist attacks is a valuable line of enquiry. In this paper, we bring together insights from field of finance and politics. Specifically, we examine trading patterns on highly liquid insurance-type financial instruments around a specific terrorist event. This approach provides an insight into risk perception ...

    2010| Martin Mullins, John Garvey
  • Diskussionspapiere 1006 / 2010

    Estimating Persistence in the Volatility of Asset Returns with Signal Plus Noise Models

    This paper examines the degree of persistence in the volatility of financial time series using a Long Memory Stochastic Volatility (LMSV) model. Specifically, it employs a Gaussian semiparametric (or local Whittle) estimator of the memory parameter, based on the frequency domain, proposed by Robinson (1995a), and shown by Arteche (2004) to be consistent and asymptotically normal in the context of signal ...

    2010| Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Luis A. Gil-Alana
  • Economics of Security Working Paper Series 25 / 2010

    Money Laundering: Some Facts

    The term "Money Laundering" originates from the US describing the Mafia's attempt to "launder" illegal money via cash-intensive washing salons, which where controlled by company acquisitions or business formations. Estimated two to five per cent of the global gross domestic product stems from illicit sources. A great deal of the money derives from drug-dealing, with a total revenue of 810 Billion USD ...

    2010| Friedrich Schneider, Ursula Windischbauer
  • Economics of Security Working Paper Series 26 / 2010

    Money Laundering and Financial Means of Organized Crime: Some Preliminary Empirical Findings

    After giving a short literature review, the paper tries a quantification of the volume of money laundering activities, with the help of a MIMIC estimation procedure for the years 1995 to 2006 for 20 highly developed OECD countries. The volume of laundered money was 273 billions USD in the year 1995 for these 20 OECD countries and increased to 603 billions USD in 2006. The overall turnover in organized ...

    2010| Friedrich Schneider
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