IWH Research Seminar

Virtual lecture: Household Portfolios and Retirement Saving over the Life Cycle

This paper documents the share of investable wealth that middle-class U.S. investors hold in the stock market over their working lives. This share rises modestly early in life and falls significantly as people approach retirement.

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.

IWH Research Seminar

Global Implications of Multi-dimensional US Monetary Policy Normalization

Workshops and conferences

8th IWH-FIN-FIRE Workshop on "Challenges to Financial Stability"

The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association is organising a workshop on "Challenges to Financial Stability" on August 29th and 30th, 2022, to be held in Halle (Saale). We aim to attract excellent papers that analyse whether and how financial sector regulation changes, the resulting impact on financial stability, and the associated consequences for the real sector.

Public events

30 Jahre IWH

Das Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) wurde im Jahr 1992 gegründet und feiert am 12. September 2022 sein 30-jähriges Bestehen mit einem Festakt in der Leopoldina.

Workshops and conferences

11th CompNet-EIB-ENRI Annual Conference

Join us at our 11th Annual Conference "Productivity Growth, Climate Change, and Digitalization at Times of Repeated Shocks", jointly organised by CompNet, EIB & ENRI at the Headquarters of the EIB in Luxembourg on September 14 - 15, 2022.

Public events

ABGESAGT! IWH Policy Talk mit Sigmar Gabriel

Sigmar Gabriel spricht im Rahmen des IWH Policy Talks über die Zukunft der transatlantischen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen. An seinen Vortrag schließt sich eine Diskussion mit IWH-Präsident Reint E. Gropp an. Sie können dabei vor Ort teilnehmen und Ihre Fragen stellen.

Workshops and conferences

18. IWH/IAB-Workshop zur Arbeitsmarktpolitik: Qualifizierung und Arbeitskräfteknappheit in Zeiten des Wandels

Der Workshop diskutiert, wie sich Demographie und Transformationsprozesse auf Betriebe und Erwerbspersonen auswirken und welche politischen Maßnahmen sich eignen, um negativen Folgen dieser Entwicklungen auf das Arbeitskräfteangebot entgegenzuwirken.

IWH Research Seminar

Bank Competition amid Digital Disruption: Implications for Financial Inclusion

This paper studies how banks compete amid digital disruption and the resulting distributional effect across consumers. Digital disruption increases the geographic coverage of banking services, bringing new entrants to local markets.

IWH Research Seminar

The Resilience of the U.S. Corporate Bond Market During Financial Crises

Corporate bond markets proved remarkably resilient against a sharp contraction caused by the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.