In the last decade, over half of the EU countries in the euro area or with currencies pegged to the euro were hit by large risk premium shocks. Previous papers have focused on the impact of these shocks on demand. This paper, by contrast, focuses on the impact on supply. We show that risk...

This paper uses a global input-output framework to quantify US and EU demand spillovers and the elasticity of world trade to GDP during the global recession of 2008-2009. We find that 20-30 percent of the decline in the US and EU demand was borne by foreign countries, with NAFTA, Emerging...

This study finds that equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the Great Recession and the European sovereign debt crisis have been driven mainly by weak growth prospects and heightened sovereign risk and to a lesser extent, by deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment....

The notable rebound of U.S. manufacturing activity following the Great Recession has raised the question of whether the sector might be experiencing a renaissance. Using panel regressions, we find that a depreciating real exchange rate, an increasing spread in natural gas prices between the...

Die wirtschaftliche Schieflage in den USA wird sich, nach Ansicht von Josef Braml, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP), Berlin, weiter zuspitzen. Vor allem die exportabhängige deutsche Wirtschaft wird davon betroffen sein. Deshalb sollte sich die deutsche Politik und...

Prof. Dr. Knut Borchardt em., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, behandelt in diesem Beitrag, den er im Rahmen der "Münchner Seminare" im Sommer 2003 vorstellte, die Frage, inwieweit die Erfahrungen aus der Weltwirtschaftskrise Wege aus der Arbeitslosigkeit auszeigen können.