Showing 1 - 10 of 481
The relative popularity of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and fixed-rate mort- gages (FRMs) varies considerably both across countries and over time. We ask how movements in current and expected future interest rates affect the share of ARMs in total mortgage issuance. Using a nine-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458258
: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466388
Eurozone countries today) and two - Finland and Sweden - after floating the currency … driver of growth was exports. In Ireland this occurred because the sterling coincidentally appreciated. In Finland and Sweden … detailed case studies, two - Denmark and Ireland - undertaken under fixed exchange rates (the most relevant case for many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461087
We estimate the effect of housing price changes on fertility and early-life child health in Denmark. Using rich … generous government programs in Denmark. We also present the first estimates of the effect of home prices on infant health. Our … families and with both children and child health being normal goods that are similarly-valued in the US and Denmark …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481324
" (OOFCs) within the Euro Area. The OOFCs of Luxembourg, Ireland, and the Netherlands serve dual roles as both hubs of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512129
,187 homeowners, half of whom are in the Netherlands, where flood insurance penetration rates are low and recent flooding caused minor … among homeowners with little to no flood-related experience: in the Netherlands defaults increase the likelihood of insuring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481576
For Sweden, the UCTI and PTI indicators are in fact strongly negatively correlated and have opposite signs. If the UCTI … restricted to Sweden but concerns several other countries in the European Union …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014436993
We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481180
This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 "time-bomb" for SMEs. Rather, business failures and policy costs remain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482634
We study the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) of domestic firms using a new, representative firm-level data set spanning six countries. A novel finding is that firm-level spillovers from foreign firms to domestic companies can be significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455039