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So viele Firmenpleiten wie seit Jahrzehnten nicht
Steffen Müller
Handelsblatt, 10. April 2024
We exploit detailed data on approved and rejected small-business loans to assess the impact of a new credit registry in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Futures markets are a potentially valuable source of information about price expectations. Exploiting this information has proved difficult in practice, because time-varying risk premia often render the futures price a poor measure of the market expectation of the price of the underlying asset.
The U.S. banking sector has become substantially more concentrated since the 1990s, raising questions about both the causes and implications of this consolidation.
This paper proposes a difference-in-differences approach for disentangling a total treatment effect on some outcome into a direct impact as well as an indirect effect operating through a binary intermediate variable – or mediator – within strata defined upon how the mediator reacts to the treatment.
The workshop provided a platform to discuss changes in the regulatory framework of the financial sector, their impact on financial stability, and consequences for the real sector.
Als Erklärung für die seit den 1990er Jahren steigende Lohnungleichheit in Deutschland nennt die ökonomische Forschung technologischen Wandel, zunehmenden internationalen Wettbewerbsdruck sowie institutionelle Veränderungen am Arbeitsmarkt.
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 unconventional monetary policy, international monetary policy spillovers, financial stability and monetary policy.
This paper considers effects of local public finances on land use. A theoretical analysis explores the trade off faced by a local government deciding about the amount of land made available for commercial use.
Sponsored by the Chief Economist Office for the World Bank’s Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions Practice Group and the Competitiveness Research Network.
Wie lassen sich moralische Anliegen wirksam zur Geltung bringen? Wie kann man menschliches Verhalten breitenwirksam so verändern, dass gesellschaftliche Missstände vermieden werden? Wie lassen sich allgemein wünschenswerte Ergebnisse in der modernen (Welt-)Gesellschaft herbeiführen?