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This paper examines the effect of national government response measures to Covid-19 on German international capital flows. Analyzing highly disaggregated monthly data from the German balance of payments statistics over the period from January 2019 through January 2021, we find that bilateral...
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Since the start of the CoViD-19 pandemic, a major source of concern has been its effect on mental health. Using pre- pandemic information and have customized questionnaires in the Dutch LISS panel, we investigate how mental health in the working population has evolved along with the most...
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This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 deniers on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany. In a first step, we establish a link between regional proxies of COVID-19 deniers and infection rates. We then estimate the causal impact of large anti-lockdown protests on the spread of COVID-19 using an...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to lifestyle changes across Europe with a likely impact on sleep quality. This investigation considers sleep quality in relation to the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in five European countries. Using panel regressions and keeping policy responses to COVID-19...
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An economy's ability to resist adverse shocks, such as an economic recession or natural disaster, is associated with its financial system structure due to different countercyclical funding capabilities. This paper uses a novel database of bank headquarter locations in a cross-country comparison...
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decisively on prevailing loan-to-value (LTV) ratios in mortgage markets with borrowing constrained households. Utilizing a smooth … housing sector in times of high LTV ratios, which, through changes in mortgage lending and mortgage equity withdrawals (MEWs …
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of macroprudential instruments addressing mortgage credit. The model compares the introduction of a loan-to-value ratio …
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the main mortgage. Second, we examine the role of legal and economic institutions in accounting for these differences. We … youngest group of households borrow lower amounts (conditional on borrowing), and the mortgage interest rates paid by low …
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hypothetical activation shows that the introduction of a cap on the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio of new mortgage loans in Germany …
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This paper presents a framework for estimating losses in the residential real estate mortgage portfolios of German …-trigger hypothesis of mortgage defaults. In order to analyse the possible credit losses stemming from residential mortgage lending we … to 2020 for the whole German banking sector. Our results show that loss rates in the residential mortgage portfolios of …
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