In 2024, the share of women on the top decision-making boards of the largest companies in Germany increased. A solid 19 percent of all executive board members at the 200 largest companies are now women, and almost 26 percent of members at the 40 largest listed companies are women. The financial sector is also catching up in this regard. Moreover, legal requirements, such as the inclusion requirement ...
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Das Statistische Bundesamt hat heute bekannt gegeben, dass die deutsche Wirtschaft im Jahr 2024 um 0,2 Prozent geschrumpft ist. Dazu eine Einschätzung von Jan-Christopher Scherer, Konjunkturexperte im Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin):
DIW Managerinnen-Barometer: Erneut mehr Vorständinnen und Aufsichtsrätinnen in meisten der untersuchten Unternehmensgruppen, aber nach wie vor deutlich Luft nach oben – Geschlechterstereotype sind ein Hindernis für mehr Frauen in Führungspositionen – Zusätzliche Studie zeigt, dass Medien in Artikeln über Managerinnen zu geschlechterstereotypen Darstellungen greifen Der Frauenanteil in den obersten ...
In conventional proxy VAR analysis, the shocks of interest are identified by external instruments. This is typically accomplished by considering the covariance of the instruments and the reduced-form residuals. Alternatively, the instruments may be internalized by augmenting the VAR process by the instruments or proxies. These alternative identification methods are compared and it is shown that the ...
This paper explores the effect of COVID-19 infection rates on individuals’ risk preferences using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Findings show that the spread of COVID-19 does not significantly alter risk preferences. While we do find that individuals with prior cardiovascular diseases reduce their preference for risk-taking, this zero effect is remarkably stable across subgroups of the population. ...
