Workshops und Konferenzen

3rd IWH/INFER-Workshop on Applied Economics and Economic Policy

The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) and the International Network for Economic Research were organising a workshop on current challenges for monetary policy (in particular for the Euro area), and economic dynamics in a currency union.

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

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.

IWH Research Seminar

Politics and Banking in Russia: The Rise of Putin

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.

IWH Research Seminar

Foreign Bank Entry and Entrepreneurship

Using unique firm-level data across 48 developing countries and 36 manufacturing industries, we gauge the importance of international banks’ presence for promoting entrepreneurship, as measured by business formation.

IWH Research Seminar

The Long-Run Real Effects of Banking Crises: Firm-Level Investment Dynamics and the Role of Wage Rigidity

This paper studies the long-run effects of credit market disruptions on real firm outcomes and how these effects depend on nominal wage rigidities at the firm level.

IWH Research Seminar

Bank Capital Regulation with Unregulated Competitors

We analyze optimal capital regulation of imperfectly competitive banks that are confronted with competition from non-regulated banks. We characterize banks as having access to deposit insurance and underly banking regulation in exchange.

IWH Research Seminar

The Real Effects of Exchange Rate Depreciation: The Role of Bank Loan Supply

Using matched bank-firm-level data and the 2014 depreciation of the euro, we show that exchange rate depreciations can lead to higher loan supply.

IWH Research Seminar

Optimal Timing of Policy Interventions in Troubled Banks

IWH Research Seminar

Virtual lecture: Carbon Emissions and the Bank-Lending Channel

We study how firm-level carbon emissions affect bank lending and, through this channel, real, financial, and environmental outcomes in a sample of global firms with syndicated loans.