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"). When firms of heterogenous qualities raise financing, high-quality firms are willing to bear adverse selection...

International agricultural trade is key to improving global food security. It ensures better access to more diversified and nutritious food, especially in low-income countries, and acts as a safety net against food shortages caused by climate risks, crises, political tensions and other shocks....

The organising committee invite young academics (PhD students and postdocs) dealing with theoretical or theoretically founded empirical research on banks and financial markets to submit a paper or a project outline for presentation at the 11th Workshop Banks and Financial Markets. Topics of...

The 2023 ECB Banking Supervision Research Conference (in hybrid format) will provide a forum to discuss these themes, aiming at building bridges between supervisory policies and practices on the one hand and academia on the other hand. Topics: - Challenges and opportunities for of the future...

Die Jahrestagung des Deutschen Vereins für Versicherungswissenschaft e.V. wird derzeit als Präsenzveranstaltung in Coburg mit hybriden Veranstaltungsteilen geplant. Das Veranstaltungsformat wird je nach Pandemielage, auch kurzfristig, angepasst. Auf der Jahrestagung werden Forschungsarbeiten...

What is the impact of granular credit risk on banks and on the economy? We provide the first causal identification of single-name counterparty exposure risk in bank portfolios by applying a new empirical approach on an administrative matched bank-firm dataset from Norway. Exploiting the fat...

Africa is the world region with the strongest population dynamics, resulting in a young and aspiring population that is set to almost double by 2050. More than a fifth of the world’s population will then live in Africa. This offers great opportunities for businesses and countries seeking to...

Theme: Sustainable Supply Chains in Times of Multiple Crises This year’s edition of the Forum brings together key stakeholders from policy and representatives from the private sector, academia and civil society to discuss sustainability in light of the energy crisis, changes in the global...

Das Zweibrücker Symposium der Finanzdienstleistungen widmet sich jährlich den aktuellen Themen der Banken- und Versicherungsbranche. Thema: " Kundenorientierte Finanzdienstleistung - jetzt erst recht?".

Die Arbeitswelt in der Versicherungswirtschaft wandelt sich kontinuierlich - Agilität der Prozesse und Strukturen, Flexibilisierung von Zeit und Ort des Arbeitens, Digitalisierung und Selbstverantwortung sind die wesentlichen Herausforderungen. Der Head of HR eines internationalen...