Öffentliche und private Investitionen im Euroraum sind auch zehn Jahre nach der Finanzkrise noch immer nicht auf Vorkrisenniveau – DIW-Berechnungen zeigen, dass ein Anstieg der öffentlichen Investitionstätigkeit auch private Aktivitäten anregt – In Deutschland wären insbesondere Bau- und Infrastrukturinvestitionen effektiv – Starre Schuldenbremse verhindert ...
Conceptual and technical preparation and execution of workshops on current topics in close coordination with thematically responsible staff of the BMF (up to 6 workshops per year)
Konzeptionelle und organisatorische Vorbereitung und Durchführung von Workshops zu aktuellen Themen in enger Abstimmung mit thematisch zuständigen MitarbeiterInnen des BMF (bis zu 6 Workshops pro Jahr).
The paper analyzes the integration of euro area sovereign bond markets during the European sovereign debt crisis. It tests for contagion (i.e., an intensification in the transmission of shocks across countries), fragmentation (a reduction in spillovers) and flight-to-quality patterns, exploiting the heteroskedasticity of intraday changes in bond yields for identification. The paper finds that euro ...
We develop and estimate a general equilibrium search and matching model that accounts for key business cycle properties of macroeconomic aggregates, including labor market variables. In sharp contrast to leading New Keynesian models, we do not impose wage inertia. Instead we derive wage inertia from our specification of how firms and workers negotiate wages. Our model outperforms a variant of the standard ...
Although the federal government has been taking steps to strengthen investment in Germany, it remains considerably low. This includes private investment, on which thepresent study focuses. German companies are barely investing more than they did before the crisis, but this is not the case elsewhere: in the US, for example, the level of investment is nearly 14 percent higher than it was in 2007. One ...