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This study constructs a comprehensive wealth distribution for Germany to inform debate in Germany and internationally on the distribution of wealth including pension entitlements. We estimate the net present value of pension wealth in Germany in 2012 and 2017 using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data. When including pension wealth, German households’ wealth-income ratio increases from 570% to 850% in ...
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Economics Letters
231 (2023), 111299, 5 S.
| Charlotte Bartels, Timm Bönke, Rick Glaubitz, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder
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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 ...
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International Review of Economics and Finance
83 (2023), S. 330-347
| Dorothea Schäfer, Andreas Stephan, Henriette Weser
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This paper investigates the effect of insolvency regulation reforms on cross-border debt and equity investments at aggregate and sectoral levels. Using disaggregated data from the ECB’s Securities Holdings Statistics by Sector (SHSS) database and the OECD indicators on efficiency of insolvency regulations, we find that investors increase their debt and equity holdings in the countries that undertook ...
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Journal of International Money and Finance
131 (2023), 102795, 24 S.
| Tatsiana Kliatskova, Loïc Baptiste Savatier, Michael Schmidt
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This paper studies market segmentation that arises from the introduction of rent control. When a part of the market remains unregulated, theory predicts an increase of free-market rents due to the misallocation of households to dwellings. To document this mechanism empirically, we study a large-scale policy intervention in the German housing market. We isolate the misallocation mechanism by exploiting ...
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Journal of Urban Economics
134 (2023), 103513, 22 S.
| Andreas Mense, Claus Michelsen, Konstantin A. Kholodilin
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In this study, we investigate the determinants of rental prices in Russian Empire prior to World War I and the variation of housing rents across cities. For our research, we use statistical data on 1232 cities in 1910. Our analysis shows that the urban rents in imperial Russia were affected by such city characteristics as its population structure, prices for different goods, and the geographical position. ...
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Voprosy ėkonomiki : ežemesjačnyj žurnal
(2022), 7, S. 123-239
| Alisa Y. Raykovskaya, Marina A. Talantceva, Konstantin A. Kholodilin
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We use machine learning techniques to quantify trade tensions between the United States and China. Our measure matches well-known events in the US-China trade dispute and is exogenous to the developments on global financial markets. Local projections show that rising trade tensions leave US markets largely unaffected, except for firms that are more exposed to China, while negatively impacting stock ...
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Journal of Applied Econometrics
37 (2022), 6, S. 1138-1159
| Massimo Ferrari Minesso, Frederik Kurcz, Maria Sole Pagliari
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In an urban economy, the distribution of people and real estate prices depends on the location of the central business district of a city. As distance from the city center increases, both prices and population density diminish, for travel costs increase in terms of time and money. As manufacturing gradually leaves the cities, the importance of consumer amenities as attractors of population to the urban ...
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Regional Science Policy and Practice
14 (2022), 4, S. 916-938
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Irina Krylova, Darya Kryutchenko
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As the COVID-19 pandemic progressed in the USA, ‘hotspots’ shifted geographically over time to suburban and rural counties showing a high prevalence of the disease. We analyse population-adjusted confirmed case rates based on daily US county-level variations in COVID-19 confirmed case counts during the first several months of the pandemic (1 March 2020 through 23 May 2020) to evaluate the spatial dependence ...
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International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics
12 (2022), 4, S. 366-380
| Christopher F. Baum, Miguel Henry
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This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 266,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) and 2016, covering up to 91 countries. Our main insight is that, as in equity markets, the returns on external sovereign bonds have been sufficiently high to compensate for risk. Real ...
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics
137 (2022), 3, S. 1615–1680
| Josefin Meyer, Carmen M. Reinhart, Christoph Trebesch
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The use of futures instead of forwards exchange contracts completes the maturity spectrum of the correlation between spot yields and the premium. We find that the forward premium puzzle appears to be a precrisis phenomenon and is only observed for maturities longer than about 1 month. Differences in the exposure to risk help to explain cross-sectional spreads in currency excess returns. However, this ...
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Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
54 (2022), 1, S. 5-38
| Kerstin Bernoth, Jürgen von Hagen, Casper de Vries