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Können die Beamten die Rentenversicherung retten?Oliver HoltemöllerWirtschaftsWoche, 12. Mai 2025
In this paper, we investigate the economic returns to industrial espionage by linking information from East Germany's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany.
Banks’ limited knowledge about borrowers’ creditworthiness constitutes an important friction in credit markets. Is this friction deeper in recessions, thereby contributing to cyclical swings in credit?
Der 14. IWH/IAB-Workshop zur Arbeitsmarktpolitik diskutierte die Bedeutung von Arbeitnehmermitbestimmung, Gewerkschaften, Betriebsräten und Arbeitgeberverbänden für Betriebe und Beschäftigte.
Die zentrale Rolle von Innovationen in vom Strukturwandel geprägten Regionen als Treiber von Wachstum und Produktivität ist heute unbestritten. Die von der Entstehung neuen Wissens und Innovationen ausgehenden Externalitäten begründen staatliche Eingriffe, etwa durch Subventionen für Unternehmen oder durch die Bereitstellung einer Forschungsinfrastruktur durch den Staat. ...
The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) - Member of the Leibniz Association and the International Network for Economic Research (INFER) were organising a workshop on inflation dynamics and persistence, inflation expectations, unconventional monetary policy, interest rates and financial stability, and low inflation and the real economy.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together original economic and inter-disciplinary papers that cast some light on new developments in theoretical and empirical research from all fields of local public economics and local public finance. The workshop should also give PhD students an opportunity of presenting and discussing their research results.
The Halle Forum on Urban Economic Growth established in 2006 has the aim to bring together original economic and interdisciplinary papers that cast some light on new developments in theoretical and empirical research on economic growth and development in urban environments. The Forum should also give PhD students an opportunity for presenting and discussing their research results.
Cities all over the world have a very prominent function for generating creativity and economic growth. The institutional conditions for this function differ a lot between nations, not least between Russia and Germany. The Workshop shall promote the exchange of research results on the impact of these differences on the local economy. The main focus is laid on the urban system in Russia.
We study the implications of multi-period mortgage loans for monetary policy, considering several realistic modifications – fixed interest rate contracts, lower bound constraint on newly granted loans, and possibility for the collateral constraint to become slack – to an otherwise standard DSGE model with housing and financial intermediaries.
