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Unsägliche Industriepolitik und ein übergriffiger StaatReint GroppThe Pioneer, 1. März 2025
Auch 2017 Jahr öffnet das IWH bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften wieder seine Türen. In diesem Jahr bieten wir Powerpoint-Karaoke, ein Mitmachspiel für Kinder zum Thema Überfischung, spannende Vorträge und ein Inkognito-Quiz über Finanzen an.
This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the macroeconomic effects of the Hartz IV reform in Germany, which reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment benefits.
Traditional approaches to structural interpretation of vector autoregressions can be viewed as special cases of Bayesian inference arising from very strong prior beliefs about certain aspects of the model.
This paper has four goals: First, the use of cash as a possible driving factor of the shadow economy is investigated. Second, the use of cash in crime, here especially in corruption, is also econometrically investigated.
We study loan conditions when bank branches close and firms subsequently transfer to a branch of another bank in the vicinity.
This paper investigates how taxes affect relative mobility in the income distribution in the US. Household panel data drawn from the PSID between 1967 and 1996 is employed to analyse the relationship between marginal tax rates and the probability of staying in the same income decile.
This paper studies the link between bank risk, and the attention that retail depositors pay to it depending on deposit insurance. We propose a new measure of depositor attention, the Google search frequency for a given bank name.
In jüngster Zeit gibt es in Deutschland – ebenso wie im Ausland – Bestrebungen zur Suche nach Alternativen zur Schaffung von immer größeren kommunalen Gebietskörperschaften. Ein viel diskutierter Ansatz hierzu ist die Kooperation zwischen benachbarten Kommunen in jeweils einzelnen Aufgabenbereichen. Bislang fehlte es an einer Gesamtschau von solchen Interkommunalen Kooperationsvorhaben (IKV).
Transferworkshop der Expertenplattform Demographischer Wandel in Sachsen-Anhalt in Zusammenarbeit mit dem IWH
Economic performance in the euro area has been heterogeneous during the recent decade. Still, intra-euro area real exchange rates have adjusted only slowly. In this paper, we first document that the half-life of intra-euro area real exchange rates has increased strongly after 2008.
