IWH Research Seminar

How Do Banks Compete? Lessons From an Ecuadorian Loan Tax

We study how bank competition affects commercial lending using a quantitative model.

Workshops und Konferenzen

11th Workshop Banks and Financial Markets

We invite young academics (PhD students and postdocs) dealing with theoretical or theoretically founded empirical research on banks and financial markets to submit a paper or a project outline for presentation at the 11th Workshop Banks and Financial Markets taking place May 11th and 12th, 2023 at the Halle Institute for Economic Research IWH in Halle (Saale).

IWH Research Seminar

The Tip of the Iceberg: Pre-Publication Revisions of Bank Financial Statements

We investigate whether pre-publication revisions of bank financial statements contain information about financial stability.

IWH Research Seminar

Virtual Lecture: Motivating Banks to Lend? Credit Spillover Effects of the Main Street Lending Program

IWH Research Seminar

Virtual Lecture: IT in Banking and Entrepreneurship

IWH Research Seminar

"Inspect what you expect to get respect?" Can bank supervision kill zombie lending?

A bank in poor financial shape may have incentives to maintain a lending relationship with a "zombie" firm in order to avoid or delay the recognition of credit losses.

IWH Research Seminar

Does Bank Supervision Matter? Evidence from Regulatory Office Closures

We use a quasi-natural experiment to identify the effects of supervision on bank behavior. Under the decentralized structure of U.S. bank supervision, banks in the same geographic area may be supervised by different regulatory offices.

IWH Research Seminar

Why Are Big Banks Getting Bigger?

The U.S. banking sector has become substantially more concentrated since the 1990s, raising questions about both the causes and implications of this consolidation.

IWH Research Seminar

Lending-of-Last-Resort is as Lending-of-Last-Resort Does: Central Bank Liquidity Provision and Interbank Market Functioning in the Euro Erea

This paper investigates the impact of ample liquidity provision by the European Central Bank on the functioning of the overnight unsecured interbank market from 2008 to 2014.

IWH Research Seminar

The Impact of Bank Shocks on Firm-level Outcomes and Bank Risk-taking

We examine the impact of bank-loan supply shocks on firm outcomes and bank risk-taking employing bank-firm matched credit information for the period 2002-2012.