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Pills or puts?Shuo XiaFinancial Times, February 2, 2024
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?
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.
On Thursday, 10 November 2016, a PhD workshop on financial market topics with Professor Dr Claudia Buch, Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the conference room of the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle (IWH).
We analyse whether the increase in trade exposure induced by the rise of China and the transformation of Eastern Europe has been a driver of the severe decline in collective bargaining coverage rates among German establishments from the mid 1990s onwards, which has been identified as a major source of rising wage inequality in Germany.
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.
Der Aufschwung in Deutschland und im Euro-Raum setzt sich fort. Für Deutschland rechnet der Sachverständigenrat mit Zuwachsraten des realen Bruttoinlands-produkts von 1,9% im Jahr 2016 und 1,3% im Jahr 2017.
In a meta-analysis of 115 experimental impact evaluations, we find that financial education significantly impacts financial behavior and, to an even larger extent, financial literacy.