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The Great Mortgaging: Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles

Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - CESifo - 2014

This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks’ balance sheets doubled in the course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of...

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Sovereigns versus Banks: Credit, Crises, and Consequences

Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - CESifo - 2013

Two separate narratives have emerged in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. One interpretation speaks of private financial excess and the key role of the banking system in leveraging and deleveraging the economy. The other emphasizes the public sector balance sheet over the private and...

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The Great Mortgaging : Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles

Jordà, Òscar - 2015

This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks' balance sheets doubled in the course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032225

Leveraged Bubbles

Jorda, Oscar - 2015

What risks do asset price bubbles pose for the economy? This paper studies bubbles in housing and equity markets in 17 countries over the past 140 years. History shows that not all bubbles are alike. Some have enormous costs for the economy, while others blow over. We demonstrate that what makes...

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Sovereigns Versus Banks : Credit, Crises, and Consequences

Jorda, Oscar - 2014

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Matching as a Cure for Underprovision of Voluntary Public Good Supply: Analysis and an Example

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk - CESifo - 2011

Matching mechanisms are regarded as an important instrument to bring about Pareto optimal allocations in a public good … interior matching equilibrium, however, emerges only under very special conditions. But we show in this note that corner …

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Potentially Harmful International Cooperation on Global Public Good Provision

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk - CESifo - 2012

-called matching approaches. Matching schemes are regarded as providing a promising approach to overcome undersupply of public goods … like climate protection. The functioning of matching mechanisms in a setting with an incomplete agreement, i.e. a contract … by analyzing incomplete matching agreements in the context of international climate protection. We analyse their effect …

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Pareto Improvement through Unilateral Matching of Public Good Contributions: The Role of Commitment

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Peters, Wolfgang; … - CESifo - 2014

When providing public goods through voluntary contributions, a donor may introduce unilateral matching in order to … reduce underprovision of the public good and thus inefficiency. By itself, however, matching benefits the donor but harms the …

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Interior matching equilibria in a public good economy : an aggregative game approach

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - In: Journal of public economics 95 (2011) 7/8, pp. 639-645

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Existence and Warr Neutrality for Matching Equilibria in a Public Good Economy : An Aggregative Game Approach

Buchholz, Wolfgang - 2010

under which matching mechanisms in a public good economy lead to interior matching equilibria in which all agents make … is a crucial determinant for the existence of interior matching equilibria. In addition, we explore which matching … optimal solutions through matching …

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