This paper proposes an approach to estimate the impact of adverse climatic events on the profitability of small European banks (LSIs). By considering river ooding phenomena, we construct a unique database matching the information on location, frequency and severity of oods with the location and...

Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. The possibility of having a supplementary job was introduced to reduce welfare dependency and facilitate successful labor market integration. In the present study, we use the German Panel Study...

Many questions in urban and regional economics can be characterized as including both a spatial and a time dimension. However, often one of these dimensions is neglected in empirical work. This paper highlights the danger of methodological inertia, investigating the effect of neglecting the...