Das Statistische Bundesamt veröffentlicht neben dem realen Bruttoinlandsprodukt auch den Realwert des Bruttoinlandsprodukts. Die beiden Schlüsselindikatoren unterscheiden sich um den Terms-of-Trade-Effekt. Im Ergebnis für das Jahr 2018 musste die deutsche Wirtschaft zum zweiten Mal in Folge...

Das Statistische Bundesamt berechnet seit der großen VGR-Revision 1999 neben dem preisbereinigten Bruttoinlandsprodukt auch den Realwert des Bruttoinlands­produkts, d.h. die Kaufkraft der im Wirtschaftsprozess entstandenen Einkommen. Mit dem Ausweis dieser Größe, einer der...

Long- and short-run current account balance (CAB) determinants of the nineteen Eurozone (EZ) member states vis-a-vis the United States (US) are examined. Particularly, the competitiveness of the EZ vs the US, the relationship between the current account deficit and the budget deficit (twin...

We study the economics and finance scholars' reaction to the 2008 financial crisis using machine learning language analyses methods of Latent Dirichlet Allocation and dynamic topic modelling algorithms, to analyze the texts of 14,270 NBER working papers covering the 1999–2016 period. We find...

The aim of this paper is to compare the conventional monetary model of the exchange rate with an alternative model, which incorporates a stock price measure and is based on Friedman?s money demand function. These models are then compared using data from the UK, Canada and the USA, applying the...

Capital market remains an effective channel of financial intermediation. However, it has been underperforming in developing economies and thus resulting in the attendant illiquidity and other inefficiencies. This study examined the response of All-Share Index (ASI) to external financial flows...

International Financial Services: Location Preferences and Economies Advanced and rapidly developing countries vie to bring International Financial Services (IFS) industries to some of their major cities or to keep them there. The ICT revolution has made those IFS that can be commoditized...

In the last 15 years, Spain has witnessed a large increase in housing prices and in the importance of the housing sector, which has refreshed the debate on the drivers of housing cycles. Since Spain joined the European Monetary Union (EMU), twomain important factors behind the housing boom...

Empirical evidence demonstrates that credit standards, including lending margins and collateral requirements, move in a countercyclical direction. In this study, we construct a small open economy model with financial frictions to generate the countercyclical movement in credit standards. Our...