Workshops und Konferenzen

2nd Finance and Productivity (FINPRO) Conference "Finance and Productivity During and After the Lockdown"

A conference jointly organised by the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH).

IWH Research Seminar

The Rise of Bond Financing in Europe

IWH Research Seminar

Monopsonistic Competition, Income Redistribution, and the Effects of Fiscal Policy

IWH Research Seminar

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

IWH Research Seminar

Virtual lecture: Big Techs, QR Code Payments and Financial Inclusion

IWH Research Seminar

Managing Environmental Risk

Using novel job posting data, we construct a human capital-based measure of corporate investments in managing climate risk.

IWH Research Seminar

Virtual lecture: The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable endogenous growth model with size-contingent regulations.

Workshops und Konferenzen

HU-IWH (a.k.a. "hui") Joint Junior Seminar in Finance

To enhance the interaction amongst finance scholars in the Berlin-Halle region, the Finance Group at Humboldt University (HU) and the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) organise a one-day seminar for PhD students, PostDocs, and Assistant Professors to present ongoing research projects. The seminar will take place twice a year, with HU and IWH taking turns in hosting the event.

IWH Research Seminar

Virtual lecture: Household Portfolios and Retirement Saving over the Life Cycle

This paper documents the share of investable wealth that middle-class U.S. investors hold in the stock market over their working lives. This share rises modestly early in life and falls significantly as people approach retirement.

IWH Research Seminar

Virtual lecture: Carbon Emissions and the Bank-Lending Channel

We study how firm-level carbon emissions affect bank lending and, through this channel, real, financial, and environmental outcomes in a sample of global firms with syndicated loans.