In Deutschland wurde erstmals der antizyklische Eigenkapitalpuffer für Banken aktiviert. Die Eigenkapitalanforderungen wurden um den kleinstmöglichen Schritt erhöht. Außerdem erfolgt die Umsetzung im Vergleich zu anderen europäischen Ländern relativ spät. Dieses Muster der kleinen und späten Umsetzung kann eine Folge des institutionellen Rahmens mit drei zuständigen Institutionen sein. Die übrigen ...
Die gute konjunkturelle Lage im Euroraum müsste die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) dazu veranlassen, baldmöglichst aus ihrer unkonventionellen Geldpolitik auszusteigen. Es stellt sich allerdings dabei die technische Frage, in welcher Reihenfolge der Ausstiegsprozess vonstatten gehen soll: Ist es besser mit einer Zinserhöhung zu beginnen oder sollte die EZB zunächst weniger Anleihen kaufen? Beide Vorgehensweisen ...
We develop and implement a new measure for inequality aversion: two peers are endowed with identical binary lotteries and the only choice they make is whether they want to play out the lotteries independently or with perfect positive correlation (coupling). Coupling has no other effect than preventing outcome inequality. We implement the method in a survey in rural Thailand as well as a supplemental ...
This paper examines whether biased income expectations due to overconfidence lead to higher levels of debt-taking. In a lab experiment, participants can purchase goods by borrowing against their future income. We exogenously manipulate income expectations by letting income depend on relative performance in hard and easy quiz tasks. We successfully generate biased income expectations and show that participants ...
We study the literature on school financial education programs for children and youth via aquantitative meta-analysis of 37 (quasi-) experiments. We find that financial education treatmenthas, on average, a significant and sizeable impact on financial knowledge (+0.25 SD), similar toeducational interventions in other domains. Additionally, we document small but still significanteffects on financial ...
While financial inclusion is typically addressed by improving the financial infrastructure, we show that a higher degree of financial literacy also has a clear beneficial effect. We study this effect at the cross-country level, which allows us to consider institutional variation. Regarding “access to finance”, financial infrastructure and financial literacy are mainly substitutes. However, regarding ...