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Gottvertrauen? Kirchenzugehörigkeit kann Wiederaufbau nach Naturkatastrophen verbessernFelix NothMitteldeutscher Rundfunk, 20. August 2025
Der diesjährige Workshop nahm regionale Unterschiede der wirtschaftlichen und demographischen Entwicklung zwischen Stadt und Land sowie Ost und West in den Blick, aber auch Regionen mit alten Industrien und solche mit vielen jungen Start-ups.
The aim of this workshop is to dig deeper into localisation economies and associated productivity gains. The increasing availability of new cross-border databases at the firm level and of micro-level databases at the firm and individual levels creates the opportunity to analyse localisation economies in novel settings.
The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association and the FIRE research centre at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management are organising a joint Workshop on “Challenges to Financial Stability” on August 20th and 21st, 2018, to be held in Halle (Saale). The workshop provides a platform to discuss changes in the regulatory framework of the financial sector, their impact on financial stability, and consequences for the real sector.
The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) and the International Network for Economic Research (INFER) were organising a workshop on capital flows.
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.
