Borrowers Under Water! Rare Disasters, Regional Banks, and Recovery Lending
Michael Koetter, Felix Noth, Oliver Rehbein
Journal of Financial Intermediation,
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Abstract
We show that local banks provide corporate recovery lending to firms affected by adverse regional macro shocks. Banks that reside in counties unaffected by the natural disaster that we specify as macro shock increase lending to firms inside affected counties by 3%. Firms domiciled in flooded counties, in turn, increase corporate borrowing by 16% if they are connected to banks in unaffected counties. We find no indication that recovery lending entails excessive risk-taking or rent-seeking. However, within the group of shock-exposed banks, those without access to geographically more diversified interbank markets exhibit more credit risk and less equity capital.
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Firm Wage Premia, Industrial Relations, and Rent Sharing in Germany
Boris Hirsch, Steffen Müller
IWH Discussion Papers,
Nr. 2,
2018
Abstract
This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the firm effects from a two-way fixed effects decomposition of workers’ wages by Card, Heining, and Kline (2013) document that average premia are larger in firms bound by collective agreements and in firms with a works council, holding constant firm performance. RIF regressions show that premia are less dispersed among covered firms but more dispersed among firms with a works council. Hence, deunionisation is the only among the suspects investigated that contributes to explaining the marked rise in the premia dispersion over time.
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Explaining Wage Losses after Job Displacement: Employer Size and Lost Firm Rents
Daniel Fackler, Steffen Müller, Jens Stegmaier
IWH Discussion Papers,
Nr. 32,
2017
Abstract
Why does job displacement, e.g., following import competition, technological change, or economic downturns, result in permanent wage losses? The job displacement literature is silent on whether wage losses after job displacement are driven by lost firm wage premiums or worker productivity depreciations. We therefore estimate losses in wages and firm wage premiums. Premiums are measured as firm effects from a two-way fixed-effects approach, as described in Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis (1999). Using German administrative data, we find that wage losses are, on average, fully explained by losses in firm wage premiums and that premium losses are largely permanent. We show that losses in wages and premiums are minor for workers displaced from small plants and strongly increase with pre-displacement firm size, which provides an explanation for the large and persistent wage losses that have been found in previous studies mostly focusing on displacement from large employers.
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07.09.2017 • 33/2017
Reformvorschlag: Renten künftig an Verbraucherpreise koppeln
Bislang orientiert sich die jährliche Anpassung der Renten in Deutschland vor allem an der Entwicklung der Bruttolöhne und -gehälter. Ein Nachhaltigkeitsfaktor in der Rentenanpassungsformel berücksichtigt zudem den demographischen Wandel, dämpft also die Rentenanpassung bei einer Alterung der Bevölkerung – allerdings bislang nicht genug, um trotz eines sinkenden Rentenniveaus einen deutlichen Anstieg der Beiträge in der Zukunft zu verhindern. Zu dem bestehenden System gibt es durchaus Alternativen. So könnte das Rentenniveau bei Renteneintritt auf dem heutigen Niveau oder sogar etwas darüber fixiert werden und dennoch der Beitragsanstieg gedämpft werden, wenn die Renten derjenigen, die bereits in Rente sind, nur noch mit der Inflationsrate steigen. Der Lebensstandard bliebe dadurch erhalten, so lautet ein Vorschlag Oliver Holtemöllers, Leiter der Abteilung Makroökonomie und Vizepräsident am Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH).
Oliver Holtemöller
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Inside Asset Purchase Programs: The Effects of Unconventional Policy on Banking Competition
Michael Koetter, Natalia Podlich, Michael Wedow
ECB Working Paper Series,
Nr. 2017,
2017
Abstract
We test if unconventional monetary policy instruments influence the competitive conduct of banks. Between q2:2010 and q1:2012, the ECB absorbed Euro 218 billion worth of government securities from five EMU countries under the Securities Markets Programme (SMP). Using detailed security holdings data at the bank level, we show that banks exposed to this unexpected (loose) policy shock mildly gained local loan and deposit market shares. Shifts in market shares are driven by banks that increased SMP security holdings during the lifetime of the program and that hold the largest relative SMP portfolio shares. Holding other securities from periphery countries that were not part of the SMP amplifies the positive market share responses. Monopolistic rents approximated by Lerner indices are lower for SMP banks, suggesting a role of the SMP to re-distribute market power differentially, but not necessarily banking profits.
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27.04.2016 • 17/2016
Höheres Renteneintrittsalter würde gesetzliche Rentenversicherung langfristig stabiler machen
Die Deutschen werden immer weniger und immer älter – das stellt die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung (GRV) vor große Herausforderungen. Drei Stellschrauben stehen zur Verfügung, um diesem demographischen Problem entgegenzuwirken: das Anheben des Beitragssatzes zur GRV, das Absenken des Rentenniveaus oder die Erhöhung des Renteneintrittsalters. Eine Studie des Leibniz-Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) legt nahe, dass die Deutschen langfristig später in Rente gehen sollten.
Oliver Holtemöller
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