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The German far right and the scars of reunificationOliver HoltemöllerFinancial Times, September 6, 2024
Workshop topics include competition and risk-taking of individual banks, the (e)valuation of climate risks by financial institutions and in financial markets, the stability of the financial sector and its regulation and the role of real estate markets for financial system resilience. The workshop aims at linking young economists interested in related topics and provides a platform to exchange ideas and discuss recent contributions.
The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) and the International Network for Economic Research were organising a workshop on current challenges for monetary policy (in particular for the Euro area), and economic dynamics in a currency union.
We study the effects of financial and technological innovation by banks on local competition for deposits and credit supply.
We study loan conditions when bank branches close and firms subsequently transfer to a branch of another bank in the vicinity.
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.
Using unique firm-level data across 48 developing countries and 36 manufacturing industries, we gauge the importance of international banks’ presence for promoting entrepreneurship, as measured by business formation.
This paper studies the long-run effects of credit market disruptions on real firm outcomes and how these effects depend on nominal wage rigidities at the firm level.