1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2008

    What explains the spread between the euro overnight rate and the ECB's policy rate?

    We employ a time series econometric framework to explore the structural determinants of the spread between the European Overnight Rate and the ECB’s Policy Rate (EONIA spread) aiming to explain the widening of…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2008

    R&D Intensities, International Profit Shifting, and Investment Decisions

    Multinationals have the opportunity to shift taxable profits to low tax countries by means of intragroup transactions. Although transfer prices must conform to the arm’s length standard, market prices are not…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2008

    Expected Inflation, Expected Stock Returns, and Money Illusion: What can we learn from Survey Expectations?

    We show empirically that survey-based measures of expected inflation are significant and strong predictors of future aggregate stock returns in several industrialized countries both in-sample and out-of-sample.…