Die Konferenz soll deutschen WirtschaftswissenschaftlerInnen, die im Auslandarbeiten, eine Möglichkeit zum wissenschaftlichen Austausch sowohl untereinander als auch mit KollegInnenin Deutschland bieten. Willkommen sind theoretische und empirische Beiträge zu allen aktiven Forschungsgebieten...

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...

For over 50 years, the European Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society have fostered interaction among young scholars and a group of more senior academics representing different regions and fields of specialisation. At the turn of the century, the meetings began to focus on PhD students...

More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, China’s economy is facing increasing challenges. Its zero Covid strategy implies that Chinese authorities continue to implement strict containment measures to control the spread of the virus, which negatively affects growth. At the same time,...

The panel will discuss the implications of the future of labor on inequality. How is the future of labor affected by long-term trends, such as demographic change, digitalization and the climate crisis? What is the effect of the war in Ukraine and the new geopolitical situation? How will these...

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...

This international workshop, entirely organized by BiGSEM doctoral students, aims to provide doctoral students in economics and management with an opportunity to present their research and discuss its method and content in progress with peers and researchers in an informal atmosphere. In this...

Andreas Fuster is an Associate Professor of Finance and SFI Senior Chair at Swiss Finance Institute @ EPFL and a Research Fellow at the CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research). His main research interests are in empirical finance (household finance, real estate finance, banking),...

Wie könnte aktuell eine zukunftsfähige und geschlechtergerechte soziale Sicherung gestaltet werden? Wie sollten die verschiedenen Säulen der Sozialversicherung ausgestaltet werden, damit sie das Ziel der Zukunftsfähigkeit und Geschlechtergerechtigkeit unterstützen? Welche Umgestaltungen...

We document that the dominant component of overall and residual wage inequality is within plant-occupations and, combining within-occupation task information from labor force surveys with linked plant-worker data for Germany, establish three interrelated facts: (1) larger plants and exporters...