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    • Multiplex interbank networks and systemic importance: An application to European data 

      Aldasoro, Iñaki; Alves, Iván (2015-05-01)
      Research on interbank networks and systemic importance is starting to recognise that the web of exposures linking banks balance sheets is more complex than the single-layer-of-exposure approach. We use data on exposures ...
    • A Decentralization Theorem of Taxation 

      Lipatov, Vilen; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. (2015-05-01)
      "In the EU there are longstanding and ongoing pressures towards a tax that is levied on the EU level to substitute for national contributions. We discuss conditions under which such a transition can make sense, starting ...
    • Informal Sector and Economic Development: The Credit Supply Channel 

      Massenot, Baptiste; Straub, Stéphane (2015-05-01)
      The standard view suggests that removing barriers to entry and improving judicial enforcement reduces informality and boosts investment and growth. However, a general equilibrium approach shows that this conclusion may ...
    • The Dynamics of Crises and the Equity Premium 

      Branger, Nicole; Kraft, Holger; Meinerding, Christoph (2015-05-18)
      It is a major challenge for asset pricing models to generate a high equity premium and a low risk-free rate while imposing realistic consumption dynamics. To address this issue, our paper proposes a novel pricing channel: ...
    • Does Product Familiarity Matter for Participation? 

      Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Haliassos, Michael (2015-05-19)
      "Household access to financial products is often conditioned on previous use. However, banning access when learning is possible may be discriminatory or counterproductive. The ""experiment"" of German reunification ...
    • Taring All Investors with the Same Brush? Evidence for Heterogeneity in Individual Preferences from a Maximum Likelihood Approach 

      Hackethal, Andreas; Jakusch, Sven Thorsten; Meyer, Steffen (2015-05-19)
      Abstract. Microeconomic modeling of investors behavior in financial markets and its results crucially depends on assumptions about the mathematical shape of the underlying preference functions as well as their parameterizations. ...
    • Non-Mandatory Say on Pay Votes and AGM Participation: Evidence from Germany 

      Powell, Daniel; Rapp, Marc Steffen (2015-06-01)
      Since August 2009, German legislation allows for voluntary Say on Pay Votes (SoPV) during Annual General Meetings (AGMs). We examine 1,169 AGMs of all German listed firms with more than 10,000 agenda items over the period ...
    • Compensation Schemes, Liquidity Provision, and Asset Prices: An Experimental Analysis 

      Baghestanian, Sascha; Gortner, Paul; Massenot, Baptiste (2015-06-01)
      In an experimental setting in which investors can entrust their money to traders, we investigate how compensation schemes affect liquidity provision and asset prices. Investors face a trade-off between risk and return. At ...
    • Asset Market Participation and Portfolio Choice Over the Life-Cycle 

      Fagereng, Andreas; Gottlieb, Charles; Guiso, Luigi (2015-06-01)
      We study the life cycle of portfolio allocation following for 15 years a large random sample of Norwegian households using error-free data on all components of households’ investments drawn from the Tax Registry. Both, ...
    • On the Distributive Effects of Inflation 

      Gottlieb, Charles (2015-06-01)
      This paper undertakes a quantitative investigation of the effects of anticipated inflation on the distribution of household wealth and welfare. Consumer Finance Data on household financial wealth suggests that about a third ...
    • Regulatory Influence on Market Conditions in the Banking Union 

      Tröger, Tobias H. (2015-06-02)
      This paper looks into the specific influence that the European banking union will have on (future) bank client relationships. It shows that the intended regulatory influence on market conditions in principle serves as a ...
    • Life Insurance Demand under Health Shock Risk 

      Kraft, Holger; Schendel, Lorenz S.; Steffensen, Mogens (2015-06-03)
      This paper studies the life cycle consumption-investment-insurance problem of a family. The wage earner faces the risk of a health shock that significantly increases his probability of dying. The family can buy long-term ...
    • Bank Networks: Contagion, Systemic Risk and Prudential Policy 

      Aldasoro, Iñaki; Delli Gatti, Domenico; Faia, Ester (2015-07-01)
      We present a network model of the interbank market in which optimizing risk averse banks lend to each other and invest in non-liquid assets. Market clearing takes place through a tâtonnement process which yields the ...
    • On Deficits and Symmetries in a Fiscal Capacity 

      Hebous, Shafik; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. (2015-07-01)
      "There is a growing debate about complementing the European Monetary Union by a more comprehensive fiscal union. Against this background, this paper emphasizes that there is a trade-off in designing a system of fiscal ...
    • Are Tax Havens Good? Implications of the Crackdown on Secrecy 

      Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Xu, Fangying (2015-07-01)
      The pressure on tax haven countries to engage in tax information exchange shows first effects on capital markets. Empirical research suggests that investors do react to information exchange and partially withdraw from ...
    • Consumption Habits and Humps 

      Kraft, Holger; Munk, Claus; Seifried, Frank Thomas; Wagner, Sebastian (2015-07-10)
      We show that the optimal consumption of an individual over the life cycle can have the hump shape (inverted U-shape) observed empirically if the preferences of the individual exhibit internal habit formation. In the absence ...
    • Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Increasing Taxes on Top Income Earners 

      Brüggemann, Bettina; Yoo, Jinhyuk (2015-07-13)
      We analyze the macroeconomic implications of increasing the top marginal income tax rate using a dynamic general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous agents and a fiscal structure resembling the actual U.S. tax system. ...
    • "Nobody is Perfect": Asset Pricing and Long-Run Survival When Heterogeneous Investors Exhibit Different Kinds of Filtering Errors 

      Branger, Nicole; Schlag, Christian; Wu, Lue (2015-07-31)
      In this paper we analyze an economy with two heterogeneous investors who both exhibit misspecified filtering models for the unobservable expected growth rate of the aggregated dividend. A key result of our analysis with ...
    • On the Optimal Provision of Social Insurance 

      Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander (2015-08-29)
      In this paper we compute the optimal tax and education policy transition in an economy where progressive taxes provide social insurance against idiosyncratic wage risk, but distort the education decision of households. ...
    • Too Interconnected to Fail: A Survey of the Interbank Networks Literature 

      Hüser, Anne-Caroline (2015-10-01)
      The banking system is highly interconnected and these connections can be conveniently represented as an interbank network. This survey presents a systematic overview of the recent advances in the theoretical literature on ...