Die Corona-Krise trifft die Golfstaaten auf besondere Weise. Neben den direkten Folgen hat die Pandemie die Nachfrage nach der wichtigsten Einnahmequelle einbrechen lassen, dem Erdöl. Der ohnehin durch den jüngsten Preiskrieg zwischen Saudi-Arabien und Russland gedrückte Ölpreis stürzte im Frühjahr ins Bodenlose. Auch wenn er sich danach wieder leicht erholte, ist keine Entspannung in Sicht: Eine Marktsimulation ...
Zugang zu bezahlbarer und erneuerbarer Energie ist eines der zentralen nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele (Sustainable Development Goals), die die Vereinten Nationen 2015 verabschiedet haben. Insbesondere bei der Elektrifizierung in Ländern des Globalen Südens wurden in den vergangenen Jahren erhebliche Fortschritte erzielt. So sank die Anzahl der Menschen ohne Stromzugang weltweit 2016 erstmals unter ...
This study examines the effect of a soft commitment device in the form of a savings goal calendar on savings for small business owners in Kampala, Uganda. We run a randomized controlled trial (RCT) under which the treatment group receives a calendar designed to set savings goals and to make a plan to reach this goal. The control group is given a plain calendar. We find no average effect on savings, ...
The coronavirus pandemic has affected the Gulf countries in a particular way. In addition to the direct consequences of the pandemic, the spread of the coronavirus has led to a collapse in demand for the Gulf countries’ most important source of revenue: oil. Its price, which had fallen initially due to the price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, collapsed in spring 2020. Although it recovered somewhat ...
The European banking union has so far lacked its third pillar: a joint insurance fund for bank savings deposits. As the present study shows, this could be a major disadvantage in dealing with the economic impact of the corona pandemic. A scenario in which a wave of corporate insolvencies leads to loan and deposit losses reaching six percent over a year would over- whelm Germany’s national deposit insurance ...
We study repayment and delinquency in an innovative loan contract that offers borrowers a wide range of flexibility. Using a large administrative dataset, we perform unsupervised pattern analysis to study how borrowers repay within the framework of this loan. We identify eight clusters that can be grouped into three distinct repayment types. We show that borrowers with fluctuating incomes and limited ...
In recent years, the phenomenon of common ownership by institutional investors has sparked considerable debate among scholars about its impact on competition and companies’ corporate governance. This study analyses some specific features of common ownership by institutional investors in the European banking sector. It also examines closely the tension between competition policy and corporate governance ...
