IWH Research Seminar

Virtual Lecture: The Supply Chain Economy: Understanding Innovation in Services

An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper offers an alternative framework that focuses on the role of suppliers of goods and services (the “supply chain economy”) in national performance.

IWH Research Seminar

Virtual Lecture: Tasks, Occupations, and Wage Inequality in an Open Economy

Publikumsveranstaltungen

Lunchbag Seminar: Abolishing Cash: An Effective Instrument for Fighting the Shadow Economy, Crime and Terrorism?

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.

Workshops und Konferenzen

Workshop 'Perspectives for Future Research on European Urban Development'

Cities all over the world have a very prominent function for generating creativity and economic growth. The institutional conditions for this function differ a lot between nations, not least between Russia and Germany. The Workshop shall promote the exchange of research results on the impact of these differences on the local economy. The main focus is laid on the urban system in Russia.

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Small Open Economy Model Dynamics with Deferred Payments

In countries of the eurozone periphery, payments are typically delayed by several weeks. In a first step, this characteristic is introduced into a new Keynesian small open economy model by the assumption that consumption goods are paid for with a delay of one quarter.

IWH Research Seminar

Tasks, Occupations, and Wage Inequality in an Open Economy

This paper documents and theoretically explains a nexus between globalization and wage inequality within plants through internal labor market organization.

IWH Research Seminar

Bank Lending In A Small Open Economy: Does Monetary Policy Matter?

Existing empirical studies on the effect of monetary policy on bank lending almost exclusively focus on a closed economy setting and ignore the interactions between domestic monetary policy and international financial markets.