The sharp, secular decline in the world real interest rate of the past thirty years suggests that the surge in global demand for financial assets outpaced the growth in their supply. We argue that this phenomenon was driven by: (i) faster growth in emerging markets, (ii) changes in the financial...

Die ungleiche Verteilung natürlicher, Finanz-, und Wissensgüter unterstützen eine ungleichmässige Entwicklung heutiger und zukünftiger Generationen. Die zunehmende Globalisierung und der Klimawandel forcieren hierbei die Probleme. Als Ökonom stellt sich nun die Frage, ob man in die...

This paper proposes a general statistical framework for systemic financial stress indexes. Several existing index designs can be represented as special cases. We introduce a daily variant of the ECB's CISS for the euro area and the US. The CISS aggregates a representative set of stress...