Alumni
IWH Alumni The IWH would like to stay in contact with its former employees. We...
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East Germany
East Germany Rearguard Only investments in education will lead to a further catch-up ...
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Productivity
Productivity: More with Less by Better Available resources are scarce. To sustain our...
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Kommentar: Ohne Konsumverzicht keine CO2-Reduktion – auch, wenn man auf Innovation setzt
Oliver Holtemöller
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 2,
2020
Abstract
In der Diskussion über die deutsche Klimapolitik steht häufig die Frage im Mittelpunkt, mit welchen Instrumenten sich eine Reduktion der CO2-Emissionen am wirksamsten erreichen lässt. So werden etwa die Vorund Nachteile von CO2-Steuern im Vergleich zur Versteigerung von CO2-Zertifikaten und die Reihenfolge der Abschaltung von Braunkohlekraftwerken diskutiert. Neben diesen eher mikroökonomischen Aspekten hat die Klimapolitik weitreichende makroökonomische Konsequenzen.
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01.07.2020 • 11/2020
New Horizon 2020 project: The Challenge of the Social Impact of Energy Transitions
Funded by the European Commission’s Framework Programme Horizon 2020, the ENTRANCES project recently closed its kick-off meeting with a high scientific and institutional participation, and taking on the challenge of modeling the social impact of the energy transition.
Oliver Holtemöller
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MICROPROD
MICROPROD Raising EU Productivity: Lessons from Improved Micro Data The goal...
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Establishing Evidence-based Evaluation Methods for Subsidy Programmes in Germany (EVA-KULT)
EVA-KULT Establishing Evidence-based Evaluation Methods for Subsidy Programmes in...
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How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Affect Corporate Debt Maturity?
Xiang Li, Dan Su
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 6,
2020
Abstract
This paper investigates whether and how economic policy uncertainty affects corporate debt maturity. Using a cross-country firm-level dataset for France, Germany, Spain, and Italy from 1996 to 2010, we find that an increase in economic policy uncertainty is significantly associated with a shortened debt maturity. Specifically, a 1% increase in economic policy uncertainty is associated with a 0.22% decrease in the long-term debt-to-assets ratio and a 0.08% decrease in debt maturity. Moreover, the impacts of economic policy uncertainty are stronger for innovation-intensive firms. We use firms‘ flexibility in changing debt maturity and the deviation to leverage target to gauge the causal relationship, and identify the reduced investment and steepened term structure as transmission mechanisms.
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19.09.2019 • 19/2019
Long-term effects of privatisation in eastern Germany: award-winning US economist begins large-scale research project at the IWH
It is one of the most prestigious awards in the German scientific community: the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award 2019 endowed with €1.5 million goes to Ufuk Akcigit, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. At the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), Akcigit aims to use innovative methods to investigate why the economy in eastern Germany is still lagging behind that in western Germany – and what role the privatisation process 30 years ago played in this.
Reint E. Gropp
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