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'Rust in peace': Why are Germany’s bridges and schools falling apart?Oliver HoltemöllerThe Guardian, June 3, 2025
We study stock market reactions to negative corporate social responsibility (CSR) incidents concerning 7,000 multinational firms from 97 countries over the 2007-2015 period.
Als „fressende Heuschrecken“ bezeichnete Franz Müntefering einst die Private-Equity-Gesellschaften. Ob Beteiligungsinvestitionen wirklich so schlecht – oder sogar gut für die Wirtschaft sind und was diese Frage mit Start-ups, Hightech und einem europäischen Silicon Valley zu tun hat, darüber diskutieren wir beim zweiten IWH Policy Talk.
How important is mastering information and communication technology (ICT) in modern labor markets? We answer this question with unique data on ICT skills tested in 19 countries. Our two instrumental-variable models exploit technologically induced variation in broadband internet availability that gives rise to variation in ICT skills across countries and German municipalities.
Firms’ financial leverage can largely explain the value effect, however, we document that the expected return-beta relationship of equity in unconditional tests of the CAPM is more generally distorted by leverage.
We examine how state ownership of banks may have contributed to the ascent to power of Vladimir Putin during the Russian presidential elections of March 2000.
The goal of the conference was to promote the exchange of ideas and experience among young economists conducting research in all fields of economics.
Most applied work in international economics treats trade policy (a) as a linear component of trade costs and (b) as an exogenous variable.
This paper extends the classic risk-return tradeoff of asset pricing to a risk-effort tradeoff, by assuming that managerial effort is necessary to generate cash flows. Corporate governance standards influence the manager's return to effort, her exposure to corporate risk, and the dilution of shareholder value.
Previous work has shown that, in a liquidity trap, aggressive government spending cuts can be self-defeating in the short-run due to a higher-than-normal multiplier.
