This paper analyzes whether differences in institutional structures on capital markets contribute to explaining why some OECD-countries, in particular the Anglo-Saxon countries, have been much more successful over the last two decades in producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment...

Bei der Gründung der Europäischen Währungsunion wurde vielfach befürchtet, dass eine einheitliche Geldpolitik zu unterschiedlichen realwirtschaftlichen Effekten in den Teilnehmerstaaten führen könnte und sich demzufolge die volkswirtschaftlichen Kosten ungleich verteilen. Welchen Einfluss...

Is the Euro area as a whole, or are individual Euro-area member countries facing a period of sustained lower economic growth, a phenomenon known as secular stagnation? We tackle this question by estimating equilibrium real interest rates and comparing them to actual real rates. Since the...

The paper empirically estimates the financial transmission between bond and equity markets within and across the four largest global financial markets - the United States, the Euro area, Japan, and the United Kingdom. We argue that international bond and equity markets are highly connected both...