IWH Research Seminar

Pyramidal Business Groups and Regulation: Evidence from the United States, Japan, Korea and Israel

IWH Research Seminar

Innovating Banks and Local Lending

We study the effects of financial and technological innovation by banks on local competition for deposits and credit supply.

IWH Research Seminar

Netting

We present a model to explain why banks maintain off-setting long-term debts without netting them out.

IWH Research Seminar

When Subadditivity Becomes a Problem: Coherent Risk Measures and Optimal Futures Hedging with Background Risk

In this paper, we analyze standard futures hedging problems with and without background risk under law invariant coherent risk measures.

Workshops und Konferenzen

20th IWH-CIREQ-GW Macroeconometric Workshop: Micro Data and Macro Questions

The workshop provided a platform to discuss new developments in the field of empirical and applied macroeconomic modelling and aimed at bringing together academic researchers and practitioners. We invited applied and theoretical papers dealing with time series and broad macroeconomic topics. Papers that explicitly covered the macroeconomic topics with microdata were particularly welcome.

IWH Research Seminar

Dynamic Risk-Shifting, APR-violations, and Chapter 11: The Role of "Soft” versus "Tough” Bankruptcy Code Design

We show that there are two separate incentive effects of soft law working in opposite directions, the “NoAPR- effect” and the “Chapter 11-effect”, respectively.

Workshops und Konferenzen

1st Data User Conference

The 1st Data User Conference is jointly organized by the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet), France Stratégie and the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH).

Workshops und Konferenzen

5th IWH-FIN-FIRE Workshop on "Challenges to Financial Stability"

Unter dem Titel "Challenges to Financial Stability" hat das Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) gemeinsam mit dem Forschungszentrum "Financial Intermediaries and the Real Economy (FIRE)" der Frankfurt School of Finance & Management am 19. und 20. August 2019 einen Workshop veranstaltet, um über Herausforderungen an die Finanzstabilität zu diskutieren.

IWH Research Seminar

Financial Constraints and the Propagation of Shocks in Production Networks

IWH Research Seminar

Adjusting to Robots: Worker-Level Evidence

We estimate the effect of industrial robots on employment, wages, and the composition of jobs in German labor markets between 1994 and 2014. We find that the adoption of industrial robots had no effect on total employment in local labor markets specializing in industries with high robot usage.