We assess whether compliance with Basel III’s main requirements, the Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) and the risk-weighted Total Capital Ratio (TCR), matters for lending and stability of African banks. Banks with an NSFR or a TCR of at least the required minimum are defined as treatment group in the endogenous treatment estimations. Our results reveal that African banks complying with the capital threshold ...
Following the fall of the Iron Curtain it was important for the acceptance of the new economic and political system that the former Communist elites did not maintain their privileges, and that protesters, who helped to overturn the old system, improved their situation. With newly available panel data on East Germany’s socialist past, the German Democratic Republic, we analyze how former Communist elites, ...
Mathias Huebener, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Abteilung Bildung und Familie, wurde als Fellow des College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (CIDER) zum stellvertretenden Repräsentanten der dritten CIDER-Kohorte im Steering Committee von CIDER gewählt. CIDER ist eine gemeinsame Initiative des Leibniz Forschungsnetzwerks Bildungspotenziale (LERN) und der Jacobs Foundation zur ...
Current literature suggests that neuroticism is positively associated with maladaptive life choices, likelihood of disease, and mortality. However, recent research has identified circumstances under which neuroticism is associated with positive outcomes. The current project examined whether “healthy neuroticism”, defined as the interaction of neuroticism and conscientiousness, was associated with the ...
