Deutschland hat seit dem Jahr 2006 Wertverluste von mehr als zwanzig Prozent der jährlichen Wirtschaftsleistung auf sein Nettoauslandsvermögen erlitten. War dies Zufall, oder steckt mehr dahinter? Die Frage ist nicht einfach zu beantworten. Im Zeitablauf schwankende Vermögensbewertungen sind...

Available data suggest that, between 2006 and 2012, Germany may have suffered losses to the value of more than 20% of annual economic output on its net foreign assets. Were these presumed losses on German net foreign assets coincidental or can they be attributed to deeper causes? Over time,...

Understanding differences in business cycle phenomena between Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) and industrialized countries has been at the center of recent research on macroeconomic fluctuations. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the importance of certain credit market imperfections...

Scant attention has been paid in the literature concerning 'consumption wealth effects' to asset heterogeneity in terms of foreign and domestic asset holdings. Through extending the approach of Lettau and Ludvigson (2004).and Nitschka (2007), this study uncovers that whilst households tend to...

Understanding differences in business cycle phenomena between Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) and industrialized countries has been at the center of recent research on macroeconomic fluctuations. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the importance of certain credit market imperfections...

Deutschland hat seit dem Jahr 2006 Wertverluste von mehr als zwanzig Prozent der jährlichen Wirtschaftsleistung auf sein Nettoauslandsvermögen erlitten. War dies Zufall, oder steckt mehr dahinter? Die Frage ist nicht einfach zu beantworten. Im Zeitablauf schwankende Vermögensbewertungen sind...

Germany's international investments show large net valuation losses of more than 20 percent of GDP since 2006. Is this entirely random or is there a story behind these losses? It is difficult to provide a meaningful answer to this question. In general, high valuation losses on the net foreign...

Available data suggest that, between 2006 and 2012, Germany may have suffered losses to the value of more than 20% of annual economic output on its net foreign assets. Were these presumed losses on German net foreign assets coincidental or can they be attributed to deeper causes? Over time,...