In the academic debate there is a broad consensus that house price fluctuations have a substantial impact on financial stability and real economic activity. Therefore, it is important to have timely information on actual and expected house price developments. The aim of this paper is to measure...

We investigate the effect of population aging on international factor flows in a political-economy framework. Political barriers to immigration in developed countries and insecure property rights in developing countries impede factor flows. Taking into account different generations’...

Die internationale Konjunktur hat sich in der ersten Hälfte dieses Jahres nur leicht belebt. Zwar hat sich die Expansion in den fortgeschrittenen Volkswirtschaften beschleunigt, in den Schwellen- und Transformationsländern verlangsamte sie sich aber weiter. Viele Schwellenländer haben bei...

Die Abschwächung der internationalen Konjunktur verstärkte sich in der zweiten Jahreshälfte 2012. Im vierten Quartal expandierte das Weltsozialprodukt mit der geringsten Rate seit der Rezession 2008/2009. Besonders schwach war die Konjunktur in den fortgeschrittenen Volkswirtschaften. In den...

Die internationale Konjunktur hat zum Ende des vergangenen Jahres weiter an Fahrt gewonnen.

This paper uses a survey among students at European universities to explore whether Russia's invasion of Ukraine has affected attitudes toward European integration. Some respondents completed the survey just before Russia's assault on February 24, 2022, and some did so just afterwards, thus...

This paper uses a survey among students at European universities to explore whether Russia's invasion of Ukraine has affected attitudes toward European integration. Some respondents completed the survey just before Russia's assault on February 24, 2022, and some did so just afterwards, thus...

In some countries, a sizable fraction of savings is derived from corporate savings. Although larger, traded corporations are often co-owned by foreign portfolio investors, current international accounting standards allocate all corporate savings to the host country. This paper suggests a...

This paper studies how removing barriers to competition in the nontraded goods sector affects the current account, the real exchange rate, and factor prices in a small open economy. We show that the expansion of the nontraded sector that results from a deregulation shock is associated with an...

In this paper we offer an explanation why a poor majority does not necessarily expropriate a rich minority. We present a dynamic model in which individuals are willing to accept an unequal distribution of income in the current period if they are sufficiently optimistic about their future...