Angesichts eines niedrigen Steueraufkommens bei gleichzeitig hohen Ausgabenerfordernissen in Ostdeutschland wurde im Jahre 1995 der sogenannte Solidarpakt geschlossen, der den ostdeutschen Ländern, befristet auf 10 Jahre, finanzielle Leistungen von Bund und westdeutschen Ländern in Höhe von...

This paper explores the long-term relationship between public and private investment in the euro area. A stock-flow approach is proposed to control for the integration properties of the variables. Panel econometric techniques including international spillovers are employed. Private and public...

This paper examines the stability of money demand and the forecasting performance of a broad monetary aggregate (M3) in predicting euro area inflation. Excess liquidity is measured as the difference between the actual money stock and its fundamental value, the latter determined by a money demand...

The Chinese economic development affects GDP growth and inflation in the advanced countries. A GVAR approach is used to model the interdependencies between the business cycles in China and industrial countries, including the US, the euro area and Japan. For robustness, the results are compared...

The paper examines the bank lending activities of banks in a low interest rate environment. External financing of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the euro area primarily takes place via bank loans and not through capital markets. Based on the Bankscope database, bank balance sheet data is...