Förderbanken sind in den letzten Jahren sowohl in Deutschland als auch in Europa immer wichtiger geworden. Über zehn Jahre nach Ausbruch der Großen Finanzkrise, bald zehn Jahre seit Beginn der Europäischen Staatsschuldenkrise und mitten in der gesellschaftlichen Diskussion um die notwendigen Investitionen zur Begrenzung des Klimawandels und zur Verbesserung von Infrastrukturen ...
We present evidence on the open economy consequences of US fiscal policy shocks identified through proxy-instrumental variables. Tax shocks and government spending shocks that raise the government budget deficit lead to persistent current account deficits. In particular, the negative response of the current account to exogenous tax reductions through a surge in the demand for imports is among the strongest ...
We estimate the effect of government spending shocks on the U.S. economy with a time‐varying parameter vector autoregression. The recent Great Recession period appears to be characterized by uniquely large impulse responses of output to fiscal shocks. Moreover, the particularity of this period is underlined by highly unusual responses of several other variables. The pattern of fiscal shock responses ...
Das aktuelle Regelwerk zur Bankenregulierung erlaubt ein Risikogewicht von null für EU-Staatsanleihen. Seit der europäischen Verschuldungskrise wird verstärkt über die Aufhebung des Eigenkapitalprivilegs gestritten, weil die Nullgewichtung als ein Grund für die engen Verbindungen zwischen den Risiken von Staaten und Banken gesehen wird. Dieser Bericht analysiert die Entwicklung des Home Bias – also ...
The current banking regulatory framework assigns EU government bonds a risk weight of zero. Since the European debt crisis, there has been increasing controversy over eliminating this equity capital privilege, which is viewed as contributing to the close relationship between state and bank risks. This report analyses the development of home bias—the tendency of major European banks to invest disproportionately ...
Although banks are required to document their equity capital for loans, corporate bonds, and other receivables, they are currently exempted from the procedure when investing in government bonds: they enjoy an “equity capital privilege.” As part of the Basel III regulatory framework redraft, the privilege may be eliminated in order to disentangle the default risks between sovereigns and banks. The present ...
