Bauvolumen ging im vergangenen Jahr real weiter zurück und wird in diesem Jahr auch erstmals nominal sinken – Im Wohnungsbau spitzt sich die Lage 2024 weiter zu – Leichte Entspannung ist erst im kommenden Jahr zu erwarten – Politik sollte für Klarheit bei Förderprogramm sorgen und Umstrukturierung der Bauwirtschaft unterstützen Hohe Baupreise und verschlechterte Finanzierungsbedingungen belasten die ...
The EU Taxonomy is the first standardised and comprehensive classification system for sustainable economic activities. It covers activities responsible for up to 80% of EU greenhouse gas emissions and may play an important role in channelling investments into low-carbon technologies by helping investors to make informed decisions. However, especially in transition sectors much depends on the stringency ...
This study quantifies the distributional effects of the minimum wage introduced in Germany in 2015. Using detailed Socio-Economic Panel survey data, we assess changes in the hourly wages, working hours, and monthly wages of employees who were entitled to be paid the minimum wage. We employ a difference-in-differences analysis, exploiting regional variation in the “bite” of the minimum wage. At the ...
The dollar is a safe-haven currency and appreciates when global risk goes up. We investigate the dollar’s role for the transmission of global risk to the world economy within a Bayesian proxy structural vector autoregressive model. We identify global risk shocks using high-frequency asset-price surprises around narratively selected events. Global risk shocks appreciate the dollar, induce tighter global ...
Hohe Baupreise und verschlechterte Finanzierungsbedingungen belasten die Bauwirtschaft – insbesondere den Hochbau. Nominal legten die Ausgaben für Bauleistungen im Jahr 2023 zwar noch um sechs Prozent zu, preisbereinigt sanken sie aber um gut ein Prozent. In diesem Jahr dürfte auch wegen sinkender Baupreise das nominale Bauvolumen um rund 3,5 Prozent und damit erstmals seit der Finanzkrise abnehmen. ...
Entrepreneurs tend to be risk tolerant but is more risk tolerance always better? In a sample of about 2,100 small businesses, we find an inverted U-shaped relation between risk tolerance and profitability. This relationship holds in a simple bilateral regression and also when we control for a large set of individual and business characteristics. Apparently, one major transmission goes from risk tolerance ...
This paper examines how news coverage of the European Central Bank (ECB) affects consumer inflation expectations in the four largest euro area countries. Utilizing a unique dataset of multilingual European news articles, we measure the impact of ECB-related inflation news on inflation expectations. Our results indicate that German and Italian consumers are more attentive to this news, whereas in Spain ...