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Insolvency Regimes and Cross-Border Investment Decisions

This paper investigates the effect of insolvency regulation reforms on cross-border debt and equity investments at aggregate and sectoral levels. Using disaggregated data from the ECB’s Securities Holdings Statistics by Sector (SHSS) database and the OECD indicators on efficiency of insolvency regulations, we find that investors increase their debt and equity holdings in the countries that undertook ...

Number of Women on Boards of Large Companies Keeps Growing

Auf dem Weg in die Gesellschaft der Privatiers

Supplementary SOEP sample in the areas receiving assistance through the Structural Development Act for Coal-Mining Regions

The Structural Development Act for Coal-Mining Regions entered into force on August 14, 2020. In this context, the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs, and Spatial Development at the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBSR) has been commissioned to establish a Competence Center for Regional Development to provide scientific support for structural change, to...

Auf dem Weg in die Gesellschaft der Privatiers

Fast eine Million Menschen in Deutschland leben von ihrem Vermögen. Das ist jedoch in mehrfacher Hinsicht ein Problem – für Gesellschaft, Staat und sogar die Wirtschaft. 809.000 Deutsche müssen nicht arbeiten – diese Headline der Onlineplattform Statista in meinem Tweet zu Jahresbeginn hat eine Welle an Empörung ausgelöst. Vor allem auch, weil sich diese Zahl in den vergangenen zehn Jahren fast verdoppelt ...

Letzte Generation plant Offensive: was kann die Massenblockade bewegen?

SOEP-Zusatzstichprobe in den Fördergebieten nach dem Strukturstärkungsgesetz Kohleregionen

Das Gesetz ,,Strukturstärkungsgesetz Kohleregionen“ ist am 14. August 2020 in Kraft getreten – in diesem Zusammenhang ist das Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung im Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (BBSR) mit der Einrichtung eines Kompetenzzentrums für Regionalentwicklung beauftragt worden, um den Strukturwandel wissenschaftlich zu begleiten, die Veränderungen der...

Gender Parity on Top Boards Is Still a Far-off Goal, and It Is Time for Companies to Take Action: Editorial

Number of Women on Boards of Large Companies Keeps Growing: Momentum from Inclusion Requirement, However, Is Waning

The upward trend in women’s representation on executive and supervisory boards of major companies in Germany continued in 2022, although the overall momentum has slowed yet again. Growth on executive boards in particular has slowed, as the most recent DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer shows: Following a significant increase at the 200 largest companies from 2020 to 2021, there was only a one-percentage-point ...

Corporate Reporting Provides Insight into Companies’ Commitment to Gender Equality

Many companies in Germany must provide information beyond financial figures in their annual reports. For some years now, legislators have increasingly required information on non-financial aspects, such as the shares of women in leadership positions. Using a quantitative text analysis of annual reports, this second report in the 2023 DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer shows that the major publicly ...