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Mit dem Ziel, bis 2045 klimaneutral zu werden, ist Deutschland ambitionierter als alle anderen G-20-Staaten. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, bedarf es einer tiefgreifenden Transformation der Wirtschaft, die mit enormen Investitionen einhergehen muss. Ein Dreh- und Angelpunkt ist die Finanzierung...

We evaluate the impact of loan-to-value restrictions on household financial vulnerability. Using Norwegian tax data, we first document a beneficial leverage effect, in which households respond to the regulation by reducing house purchase probabilities, debt and interest expenses. Second, we...

The Digital Development Dialogue (3D) seminar is a monthly 45-minute online forum for policy and research exchange. Two speakers – one researcher and one practitioner – touch upon key topics in development policy with the goal of stimulating a meaningful dialogue across the theory & practice...

We introduce shocks to the availability of US dollar funding for non-US financial intermediaries in a two-country New Keynesian model with financial frictions. Such dollar shortages lead to uncovered interest rate parity deviations and have a significant negative effects on the macroeconomy....

This paper investigates how monetary expansion affects household consumption and savings through household debts. Using monetary policy cuts in China in the end of 2008 as an experiment, we find that the resulted increase in indebted households’ disposable income leads to increasing...

This paper develops a new class of poverty and inequality measures we call common prosperity. This measure complements existing classes of measures and allows decomposition across income sources or components of consumption expenditure. This framework enables us to study the trade-off between...

We document the presence of significant liquidity costs in Spanish sovereign debt auctions: the larger the auctioned amounts, the lower the issuance price relative to secondary market prices. Motivated by this evidence, we characterize the optimal debt-maturity management problem of a government...

Die Schweizerische Nationalbank organisiert abwechselnd mit der polnischen Nationalbank (NBP) das NBP-SNB Joint Seminar. Seit dem Beginn im Jahr 2004 hat dieses Seminar Zentralbankerinnen und Zentralbanker aus Zentralasien, Zentral- und Osteuropa sowie Akademikerinnen und Akademiker für...

This essay studies China’s bond market development by reviewing the main characteristics of the onshore market and important liberalization steps. It also describes recent trends in debt portfolio investment flows into China by non-resident investors. The simple theoretical framework for push...