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We explore the concept of global liquidity based on a factor model estimated using a large set of financial and macroeconomic variables from 24 advanced and emerging market economies. We measure global liquidity conditions based on the common global factors in the dynamics of liquidity...
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We use data from the European Household Finance and Consumption Survey in order to examine the distributional effect of intergenerational wealth transfers on the net worth distribution in 8 European countries and compare it to recent findings for the US. To do so, we resort to the decomposition...
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Cross-country differences in homeownership rates are large and persistent over time, with homeownership rates ranging from 40% in Switzerland to 80% in Spain. This paper investigates whether culture is a driving factor of the homeownership decision, and could thus explain part of the...
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risk. This paper focuses on the transmission of sovereign risk to insurance companies as some of the largest institutional … investors in the sovereign bond market. We use a firm level panel dataset that covers large insurance companies, banks and non … reflected in current insurance regulation (incl. upcoming Solvency II in Europe). …
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