Der ifo Branchen-Dialog ist eine Plattform für aktuelle Themen aus branchenspezifischer Perspektive. Expert*innen aus Unternehmen, Verbänden, Politik und Forschung erläutern aktuelle Entwicklungen, Trends und Herausforderungen. Im Rahmen der diesjährigen Veranstaltung fragen wir, wie die...

We are looking for profs, post-docs and PhD students interested in a one-day replication challenge at University of Toronto in Canada. Participants will be matched with other researchers working in the same field (e.g., dev economics, American Politics). Each team will work on replicating a...

We examine the effect of regional favoritism on firms’ access to credit. Using firm-level data on a large sample of 29,000 firms covering 48 countries, we investigate the hypothesis that access to credit of firms is higher in the birth regions of national political leaders. We find evidence...

AI Talks @ ETUI is a series of inspiring (online) conversations which focus on the different dimensions of AI - ethical, social, environmental, legal, technological - and their impact on the world of work. Top experts from academia, civil society and online rights organizations, among others,...

Against the background of rising support for right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) in Europe, FES Democracy of the Future has recently published the report Understanding Right-Wing Populism And What To Do About It which unpacks the reasons for the success of these parties. The report identifies...

Nauro Campos (University College London) will present his research co-authored with Fabrizio Coricelli (University of Siena, Paris School of Economics and CEPR) and Marco Frigerio (University of Siena) entitled The Political U: New Evidence on Democracy and Income. Jarko Fidrmuc (Zeppelin...

We investigate whether the occurrence of elections affect access to credit for firms. We perform an investigation using firm-level data covering 44 developed and developing countries. We find that elections have a detrimental influence on access to credit: firms are more credit-constrained in...

Populist parties and actors now govern various countries around the world. Often elected by the public in times of crises and over the perceived failure of ‘the elites’, the question stands as to how populist governments actually perform once elected, especially in times of crisis. Using the...

Die digitale Transformation von Unternehmen konfrontiert Personalmanager*innen und Betriebsratsmitglieder mit großen Veränderungen, die einerseits unmittelbare Auswirkungen auf ihre eigene Arbeit haben, andererseits jedoch auch auf die Arbeit der Beschäftigten. So verändern neue...

Die soeb-Werkstattgespräche sind ein Veranstaltungsformat, mit dem sich der Verbund einer Fachöffentlichkeit öffnet, um sich mit ausgewählten externen Experten zu seinen Fragestellungen und Konzepten auszutauschen. Das dritte Werkstattgespräch des Verbunds soeb 3 diskutiert aus aktueller...