Search Results – IWH Halle

SEP 2017

Workshops and conferences

7th IWH/INFER Workshop on Challenges and Implications of Inflationary Dynamics

Who

Keynote Speakers: Michael Ehrmann (European Central Bank); Mathias Trabandt (Freie Universität Berlin)

Where

IWH conference room

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.

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AUG 2016

10:00 - 12:00

IWH Research Seminar

A General Approach to Recovering Market Expectations from Futures Prices with an Application to Crude Oil

Who

Lutz Kilian, PhD (University of Michigan)

Where

IWH conference room

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.

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JUL 2016

14:15 - 15:45

IWH Research Seminar

Show Me Yours and I’ll Show You Mine: Sharing Borrower Information in a Competitive Credit Market

Who

Ralph De Haas, PhD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)

Where

IWH conference room

We exploit detailed data on approved and rejected small-business loans to assess the impact of a new credit registry in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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JUL 2016

Workshops and conferences

IWH Workshop on Labour Mobility and Inequality

Who

Keynote Speaker: Johannes F. Schmieder (Boston University)

Where

IWH conference room

The labour market is undergoing permanent adjustment processes accompanied by worker mobility, firm dynamics, and structural change.

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JUL 2016

14:15 - 15:45

IWH Research Seminar

Financial Constraints and Nominal Price Rigidities

Who

Almut Balleer (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH))

Where

IWH conference room

This paper investigates how financial market imperfections and nominal rigidities interact.

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JUL 2016

17:00 - 21:00

Public events

15. Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften

Who

Vorträge: Gerhard Heimpold, Walter Hyll, Felix Noth

Where

IWH-Konferenzsaal

Schlaue Fischer gesucht! Ein Mitmachspiel für Kinder zum Thema Überfischung. Das Anglerspiel ist ein beliebter Geschicklichkeitstest für die Kleinsten. Die etwas Größeren merken bald, dass der Teich schnell leer ist, wenn man sich nicht mit den anderen darauf einigt, dem Fischbestand etwas Zeit zum Erholen zu geben.

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JUN 2016

14:15 - 15:45

IWH Research Seminar

The Effect of Regulatory Harmonization on Cross-border Labor Migration: Evidence from the Accounting Profession

Who

Christian Leuz (The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)

Where

IWH conference room

The paper examines whether international regulatory harmonization increases cross-border labor migration.

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JUN 2016

14:15 - 15:45

IWH Research Seminar

(When) Do Long Autoregressions Account for Neglected Changes in Parameters?

Who

Uwe Hassler (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Where

IWH conference room

To construct forecasts for time series exhibiting breaks, the paper examines long autoregressions, where the number of lags is growing with T, and possible breaks are simply ignored.

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JUN 2016

14:15 - 15:45

IWH Research Seminar

Not Working at Work: Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity

Who

Michael C. Burda, PhD (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (IAB), Nürnberg)

Where

IWH conference room

We use the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12 to estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate.

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MAY 2016

14:15 - 13:45

IWH Research Seminar

Bank Capital Regulation with Unregulated Competitors

Who

Eva Schliephake (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

Where

IWH conference room

We analyze optimal capital regulation of imperfectly competitive banks that are confronted with competition from non-regulated banks. We characterize banks as having access to deposit insurance and underly banking regulation in exchange.

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