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 ...
We study the characteristics of inflation targeting as a shock absorber, using quarterly data for a large panel of countries. To overcome an endogeneity problem between monetary regimes and the likelihood of crises, we propose to study large natural disasters. We find that inflation targeting improves macroeconomic performance following such exogenous shocks. It lowers inflation, raises output growth, ...
Cost-utility analysis compares the monetary cost of health interventions to the associated health consequences expressed using quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). At whichthreshold the ratio of both is still acceptable is a highly contested issue. Obtaining societal valuations of the monetary value of a QALY can help in setting such threshold values but it remains methodologically challenging. A recent ...
Um eine Datengrundlage für ein kontinuierliches Diskriminierungsmonitoring in Deutschland zu etablieren, soll ein Fragenmodul zur Erhebung von subjektiven Diskriminierungserfahrungen im SOEP eingesetzt werden. Zentraler Bestandteil ist dabei die Möglichkeit, Aussagen zum Vorkommen von Diskriminierungserfahrungen in einzelnen Lebensbereichen zu machen. Weiterhin soll in einem solchen...
The European Economic Association welcomes you to its 35th congress, and its 1st virtual one. Whilst we were all very excited to be hosted by our colleagues at ERASMUS School of Economics for our "in-person" congress and spend time exploring this modern port city, the global challenges of COVID-19 forced us to reconsider. Our initial disappointment turned to excitement after announcing...
Work and family life arrangements differed greatly between the east and west before German reunification in 1990. Since reunification, however, the employment rates of mothers with children requiring childcare have converged. This trend is accompanied by a growing approval of maternal employment, especially in western Germany. However, differences in actual working hours remain. Mothers in the east ...
