This paper studies risk-taking by European banks. We construct a measure of risk-taking which relates changes in three month ahead expected credit standards for several non-financial private sector categories to risk of the macroeconomic environment banks operate in to reflect whether credit...

Our paper picks up the current controversial debate about increasing (income) inequality due to recent monetary policy measures in major advanced economies. We use a VAR framework identified with sign restrictions to figure out how income in- equality related measures react to monetary policy...

Die Ankündigung im Wahlprogramm der CDU, die Arbeitslosigkeit weiter reduzieren zu wollen, um bis zum Jahr 2025 Vollbeschäftigung in Deutschland zu erreichen, hat die Diskussion um dieses Thema wieder belebt. Was ist unter »Vollbeschäftigung« zu verstehen, und kann und sollte dieses Ziel...

We study the role of monetary policy for the dynamics of U.S. mortgage debt, which is the largest component of household indebtedness. A timevarying parameter VAR model allows us to study the variation in the mortgage debt sensitivity to monetary policy. We find that an identically-sized policy...