08.04.2022 - Macroeconomics

What is „sustainable“?

by Agnieszka Gehringer Thomas Mayer

The term "sustainability" is complex and needs common sense

28.09.2021 - Macroeconomics

Unwinding globalization

by Agnieszka Gehringer

We are living in a far less globalizing economy today. Since at least the Great Financial Crisis the pace of globalization has slowed down significantly or even reversed in some areas. Although the COVID-19 pandemic seems to some extent to have inter ...

31.03.2021 - Society & Finance

Active versus passive: Bond investors beware!

by Agnieszka Gehringer Kai Lehmann

Even though on average the active bond managers and the index are roughly on par, the distribution of returns shows that some managers are able to beat the index.

01.01.2014 - Macroeconomics

Disintegration versus divergence: The EMU Experience

by Agnieszka Gehringer Pablo Duarte

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The introduction of the euro was linked to expectations of convergence of economic cycles and longer-term income trends. These expectations have not been fulfilled and, especially after the Covid 19 shock, it will be increasingly difficult to meet th ...

04.09.2020 - Macroeconomics

European (Monetary) Union: Until death do us apart*

by Agnieszka Gehringer

The European Union is more and more vulnerable to shocks, with the costs of keeping the union together increasingly burdensome for the taxpayers in the creditor countries. This casts doubts about the future of the block.   *In cooperation with ...

26.03.2020 - Macroeconomics

Post-corona fiscal quagmire

by Agnieszka Gehringer

In the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis 2008-2009 and European debt crisis 2011-2012, the public debt ratios in G7 countries increased on average by altogether 40% of GDP. The coronavirus pandemic is likely to generate a much higher fiscal dam ...
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