IWH Research Seminar

McMonopsony

IWH Research Seminar

Business Education and Portfolio Returns

We provide evidence of a positive causal link between financial knowledge acquired through business education and returns on stock investments.

IWH Research Seminar

Bailout Addiction: Does Bailout Anticipation Induce Adverse Selection?

The anticipation of a future bailout of distressed firms worsens ex ante adverse selection, causing a market freeze at present and inviting government intervention ("bailout trap").

IWH Research Seminar

Aerial Bombardments Early in Life and the Ensuing Shape of the Age-Earnings Profile over the Full Working Life

Recent developments have shown that wars are an ongoing part of life across the globe. Bombardments while in utero and around birth may involve exposure to severe stress and hence may lead to long-run effects on health and abilities at high ages.

Publikumsveranstaltungen

Kaufkraft kehrt zurück – Politische Unsicherheit hoch

Vorstellung des Herbstgutachtens 2023 der Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitute

Workshops und Konferenzen

12th CompNet-EC Annual Conference

CompNet and the European Commission are organising the 12th CompNet Annual Conference on "Firms’ Performance in Challenging Times: Input Costs, Technology, Productivity, and Market Power."

Workshops und Konferenzen

9th IWH-FIN-FIRE Workshop on "Challenges to Financial Stability"

The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association organised a workshop on "Challenges to Financial Stability" on October 19th and 20th, 2023, in Halle (Saale). The workshop presented excellent papers that analysed whether and how financial sector regulation changes, the resulting impact on financial stability, and the associated consequences for the real sector.

IWH Research Seminar

Gas, Guns, and Governments: Financial Costs of Anti-ESG Policies

We study how regulation limiting ESG policies distorts financial market outcomes. In 2021 Texas enacted laws that prohibit municipalities from contracting with banks with certain ESG policies, leading to the exit of five of the largest municipal bond underwriters from the state.

Publikumsveranstaltungen

IWH Policy Talk mit Bernhard Schlink

Der Autor Bernhard Schlink wird am 26. Oktober bei uns zu Gast sein. An seinen Vortrag mit dem Titel „Zusammenwachsen, Weiterwachsen" schließt sich eine Diskussion mit IWH-Präsident Reint E. Gropp an. Im Anschluss gibt es Gelegenheit für Publikumsfragen.

Publikumsveranstaltungen

IWH @Silbersalz 2023

Wieso gehen Banken immer wieder pleite – und was können wir dagegen tun?