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Shuo Xia
Financial Times, February 2, 2024
The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association and the FIRE research centre at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management are organising a joint Workshop on “Challenges to Financial Stability” on August 20th and 21st, 2018, to be held in Halle (Saale). The workshop provides a platform to discuss changes in the regulatory framework of the financial sector, their impact on financial stability, and consequences for the real sector.
The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) and the International Network for Economic Research (INFER) were organising a workshop on capital flows.
This paper explores how bank concentration affects product market competition of non-financial firms. We argue, and provide evidence, that sharing common lenders lowers the cost of debt financing. This is because common lenders internalize potential adverse effects of higher loan rates on the product market behavior of their borrowers’ competitors.
Gesprächspartner von IWH-Präsident Reint E. Gropp ist diesmal der Chef der Europäischen Bankenaufsichtsbehörde (EBA), Andrea Eria. Als Teil des Europäischen Systems der Finanzaufsicht (ESFS) ist es Aufgabe der EBA, ein wirksames und kohärentes Maß an Regulierung und Beaufsichtigung im europäischen Bankensektor zu gewährleisten. Sie soll helfen, die Finanzstabilität in der EU zu wahren und das ordnungsgemäße Funktionierens des Bankensektors zu sichern.
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.
We show that occasional deviations from efficient wage-setting generate strong and statedependent amplication of exogenous uncertainty shocks and contribute to explain the observed countercyclicality of empirical measures of aggregate uncertainty.
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.
The Global Financial Stability Report provides an assessment of the global financial system and markets, and addresses emerging market financing in a global context.