This note reviews empirical evidence on the impacts of insolvency regimes on entrepreneurship, access to credit, preservation of viable businesses and jobs, and other variables contributing to economic development. Its objective is to provide policy makers with evidence to guide insolvency...

How would fundamental political change in Iran, leading to a democratic system with a free and rulesbased economic order, affect Germany and the EU economically? In the event of change, sanctions could be scaled back, allowing Iran to rejoin the global economy. This study quantifies the economic...

This paper examines the economic effects of the global energy transition and the large uncertainty surrounding future fossil fuel demand on countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Under the paper’s baseline, coal demand is expected to shrink by 15 percent by 2035, although depending on global...

This paper quantifies the contributions of social norms and economic incentives to the 350-hour annual gap in maternal labor supply between East and West Germany. Using a collective model of family formation and labor supply estimated on GSOEP data from 2000-2017, we find that the working-mother...