IWH Research Seminar

Virtual Lecture: Offshore Real Estate Investment. Economic Incentives, Secrecy Motives, and Ultimate Ownership

IWH Research Seminar

Credit Supply and Green Investments

Does an increase in credit supply affect firms' likelihood to invest in green technologies? To answer this question, we use text algorithms to extract information on green investments from the comments to the financial statements of Italian SMEs between 2015 and 2019.

IWH Research Seminar

Virtual lecture: Downward Revision of Investment Decisions after Corporate Tax Hikes

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

The Downstream Impact of Upstream Tariffs: Evidence from Investment Decisions in Supply Chains

Using data on import tariffs and investment in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1974 and 2012, we show that upstream tariff reductions are followed by increased down-stream investment.

IWH Research Seminar

The Impact of the Opioid Crisis on Firm Value and Investment

The increasing rates of opioid abuse has had a significant impact on the United States. This paper shows that the opioid epidemic has implications for firms which must now contend with a lower pool of available and productive workers.