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.

Publikumsveranstaltungen

Girls'Day 2019

Am Girls’Day öffnete das Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) seine Türen, um Schülerinnen die Arbeit mit ökonomischen Themen näher zu bringen. Wir gaben Einblicke in die Arbeit an unserem Institut und stellten spannende Berufe im Bereich der Volkswirtschaftslehre vor. Außerdem konnten die Schülerinnen an einem verhaltensökonomischen Experiment teilnehmen. Denn wer weiß, wie Menschen Entscheidungen treffen, versteht besser, wie Wirtschaft tickt.

Workshops und Konferenzen

Vereintes Land – drei Jahrzehnte nach dem Mauerfall

Unter dem Titel "Vereintes Land – drei Jahrzehnte nach dem Mauerfall" führte das Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) am 6. März 2019 von 10:00 bis 16:00 Uhr eine Tagung durch. Den Eröffnungsvortrag hielt Dr. Reiner Haseloff, Ministerpräsident des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt.

Workshops und Konferenzen

19th IWH-CIREQ-GW Macroeconometric Workshop: Uncertainty, Expectations and Macroeconomic Modelling

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, business cycles, economic uncertainty and expectations. Papers that explicitly covered the macroeconomic modelling on uncertainty and expectations were particularly welcome.