Eine Kreditklemme der privaten Firmen trägt nach Meinung von Frank Westermann, Ph.D., Universität München, zu der derzeitigen Verlangsamung des Wirtschaftswachstums in Deutschland bei. Insbesondere kleinere Firmen sind hiervon betroffen, während große Firmen verstärkt alternative...

Staatsausgaben und Steuereinnahmen verursachen nicht nur einen direkten Impuls, sondern lösen auch eine Multiplikatorwirkung aus. Die Erhöhung des Einkommens führt zu einer Ausweitung des privaten Konsums, somit zu einer weiteren Nachfrageerhöhung und einer abermaligen Produktionserhöhung...

Credit market imperfections give rise to boom-bust cycle episodes in emerging markets. In the present paper, we aim to provide a comprehensive analysis for Eastern Europe. We focus on documenting credit market imperfections, asymmetric financing opportunities across sectors, and business cycle...

In this paper we re-evaluate the hypothesis that the development of the financial sector was an essential factor behind economic growth in 19th century Germany. We apply a structural VAR framework to a new annual data set from 1870 to 1912 that was initially recorded by Walther Hoffmann (1965)....

In this paper, we investigate whether foreign currency accounts help overcome credit constraints in developing countries. We analyze a novel bank-level data set from Nepal, where a steady inflow of remittances has contributed to foreign currency deposits on commercial bank balance sheets. In...

We study China’s illicit capital flow and document a change in its pattern. Specifically, we observe that China’s capital flight, especially the one measured by trade misinvoicing, exhibits a weakened response in the post-2007 period to the covered interest disparity, which is a theoretical...