Excessive household borrowing has been identified as an important determinant of financial crises. Borrower-based macroprudential instruments have been proposed as a possible remedy. In Germany, two instruments have been available to macroprudential supervisors since 2017: a cap on the...

Politikmaßnahmen könnten regelgebunden evaluiert werden. Dafür sind die Bedingungen derzeit besser denn je. Eine Evidenzbasierung der Politik ist nötig, in einer Zeit populistischer Strömungen, die häufig auf fehlerhaften Informationen basieren. Der Beitrag zeigt auf, welche Elemente ein...

Macroprudential policy is a relatively new policy field. Its goal is to preserve financial stability and to prevent the build-up of systemic risk that may have adverse effects for the functioning of the financial system and for the real economy. New institutions have been tasked with the...

Projected demographic changes in industrialized and developing countries vary in extent and timing but will reduce the share of the population in working age everywhere. Conventional wisdom suggests that this will increase capital intensity with falling rates of return to capital and increasing...