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01.04.2019 • 8/2019
Bank profitability increases after eliminating consolidation barriers
When two banks merge because political consolidation barriers are abolished, the combined entity is considerably more profitable and useful to the real economy. This is the headline result of an analysis of compulsory savings banks mergers carried out by the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH). The study yields important insights for the German and the European banking market.
Michael Koetter
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IWH FDI Micro Database
IWH FDI Micro Database The IWH FDI Micro Database (FDI = Foreign Direct...
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Does Administrative Status Matter for Urban Growth? – Evidence from Present and Former County Capitals in East Germany
Bastian Heider, Martin T. W. Rosenfeld, Albrecht Kauffmann
Growth and Change,
No. 1,
2018
Abstract
Public sector activities are often neglected in the economic approaches used to analyze the driving forces behind urban growth. The institutional status of a regional capital is a crucial aspect of public sector activities. This paper reports on a quasi-natural experiment on county towns in East Germany. Since 1990, cities in East Germany have demonstrated remarkable differences in population development. During this same period, many towns have lost their status as a county seat due to several administrative reforms. Using a difference-in-difference approach, the annual population development of former county capitals is compared to population change in towns that have successfully held on to their capital status throughout the observed period. The estimations show that maintaining county capital status has a statistically significant positive effect on annual changes in population. This effect is furthermore increasing over time after the implementation of the respective reforms.
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01.11.2017 • 38/2017
IWH Policy Talk „Risk Sharing and Risk Reduction – The Challenges that Lie Ahead“
The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association is pleased to inform about its next upcoming IWH Policy Talk „Risk Sharing and Risk Reduction – The Challenges that Lie Ahead“ with Andrea Enria, first Chairperson of the European Banking Authority (EBA). The talk will take place on Tuesday, No¬vember 7, 2017, 5:00 p.m., in the IWH conference room. You are hereby cordially invited to attend.
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26.01.2017 • 8/2017
IWH Policy Talk „Faraway or Close? Supervisors and Central Bankers“
New after-work event series at IWH starts with Ignazio Angeloni, ECB
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Does Administrative Status Matter for Urban Growth? Evidence from Present and Former County Capitals in East Germany
Bastian Heider, Albrecht Kauffmann, Martin T. W. Rosenfeld
Abstract
Public sector activities are often neglected in the economic approaches used to analyze the driving forces behind urban growth. The institutional status of a regional capital is a crucial aspect of public sector activities. This paper reports on a quasi-natural experiment on county towns in East Germany. Since 1990, cities in East Germany have demonstrated remarkable differences in population development. During this same period, many towns have lost their status as a county seat due to several administrative reforms. Using a difference-in-difference approach, the annual population development of former county capitals is compared to population change in towns that have successfully held on to their capital status throughout the observed period. The estimations show that maintaining county capital status has a statistically significant positive effect on annual changes in population. This effect is furthermore increasing over time after the implementation of the respective reforms.
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Kann Korea vom deutschen Einigungsprozess lernen?
Ulrich Blum
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 4,
2011
Abstract
Auch wenn die Ausgangsbedingungen der Deutschen Einheit und einer möglichen koreanischen Vereinigung zunächst äußerst unterschiedlich erscheinen, ergeben sich aus ökonomischer Sicht einige gemeinsame Muster, die es zu analysieren lohnt. Hierzu zählen die Interdependenzen zwischen weltwirtschaftlichen Integrationsprozessen, binnenwirtschaftlichen Anpassungen und den Aufgaben des Staates, den Einigungsprozess zu finanzieren und die Wirtschaft – seinerzeit des Ostens, künftig des Nordens – zu transformieren. Das Vernachlässigen dieser
Interdependenzen im deutschen Einigungsprozess führte zu erhöhten Kosten. Der Beitrag stellt zunächst die Ausgangsbedingungen entlang wesentlicher ökonomischer Zahlen dar. Im Anschluss erfolgt eine theoretische Einordnung
des Integrationsprozesses, der sich im Wesentlichen in den Veränderungen der Preisstrukturen ausdrückt, und des Transformationsprozesses, der als Verschiebung der Produktionsmöglichkeitenkurve der Wirtschaft gesehen wird. Im Zentrum steht dabei die Mengen-Preis-Interaktion zwischen lokalen und international handelbaren Gütern. Anschließend wird gezeigt, welchen Beschränkungen die Transformation unterliegt, da die Investitionsmöglichkeiten durch die Ersparnisbildung und die Fähigkeit, auswärtiges Kapital zu mobilisieren,
begrenzt sind. Schließlich wird verdeutlicht, dass öffentliche Transfers zur Unterstützung des Aufbauprozesses das Problem, dauerhafte Leistungsbilanzdefizite abzubauen, nur begrenzt zu lösen vermögen.
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