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  • Research Project

    Strengthen national climate policy implementation: Comparative empirical learning & creating linkage to climate finance – SNAPFI

    About Our Project The project researches the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in Brazil, Germany/EU, India, Indonesia and South Africa, by research-based policy advice and capacity building. The project will especially analyse policy and financial instruments that support the just transition to a climate-friendly pathway and that can contribute to the mobilization of...

    Completed Project| Climate Policy
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 3 / 2014

    Financial Sector: Upward Trend in Share of Women on Corporate Boards Progressing Only in Small Steps

    Last year, more women were appointed to the executive boards of major financial institutions. The share of women on the executive boards of banks and savings banks at the end of 2013 was a good six percent, which represents an increase of almost two percentage points over the previous year. This increase is primarily attributable to changes at private financial institutions and cooperative banks. At ...

    2014| Elke Holst, Anja Kirsch
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Fiscal Policy Rules for Stabilisation and Growth: A Simulation Analysis of Deficit and Expenditure Targets in a Monetary Union

    We analyse the effectiveness of fiscal policy rules for business cycle stabilisation in a monetary union using a quarterly macro-econometric model of Germany. The simulations compare a deficit target and an expenditure target under a range of supply, demand and fiscal shocks. Their effects are evaluated by their impact on prices and output. The analysis demonstrates that in general the deficit target ...

    In: Journal of Policy Modeling 28 (2006), 4, S. 357-369 | Tilman Brück, Rudolf Zwiener
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 4 / 2015

    Financial Sector: Share of Women in Top Decision-Making Bodies Remains Low

    At the end of 2014, women were no better represented on the top decision-making bodies of enterprises in the financial sector than the previous year. The share of women on the executive boards of the 100 largest banks and savings banks remained at an average of almost seven percent and on the executive boards of the 60 largest insurance companies at 8.5 percent. On supervisory boards, change was slow ...

    2015| Elke Holst, Anja Kirsch
  • Diskussionspapiere 1390 / 2014

    Financial Development and Employment: Evidence from Transition Countries

    This paper studies the association between a country’s level of financial development and firms’ employment growth. We employ an incomplete contract model for evaluating this association. The model proposes that a high level of financial development affects the employment of firms with low managerial capital negatively, while firms with high managerial capital benefit from a more developed financial ...

    2014| Dorothea Schäfer, Susan Steiner
  • Diskussionspapiere 1215 / 2012

    The Impact of Introducing an Interest Barrier: Evidence from the German Corporation Tax Reform 2008

    In this study we investigate the impact of the thin capitalization rule (TCR), introduced in Germany in 2008, on firms' capital structure, investment and profitability. The identification of the causal effects is based on the escape clauses in the regulation using a difference-in-difference approach. Our results present evidence that firms strongly react in order to avoid the limited deductibility ...

    2012| Hermann Buslei, Martin Simmler
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Sovereign Risk Premiums in the European Government Bond Market

    This paper provides a study of bond yield differentials among EU government bonds on the basis of a unique data set of issue spreads in the US and DM (Euro) bond market between 1993 and 2009. Interest differentials between bonds issued by EU countries and Germany or the USA contain risk premiums which increase with fiscal imbalances and depend negatively on the issuer's relative bond market size. The ...

    In: Journal of International Money and Finance 31 (2012), 5, S. 975-995 | Kerstin Bernoth, Jürgen von Hagen, Ludger Schuknecht
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 4 / 2012

    Passed Over for Promotions: Women Still Severely Underrepresented on Financial Sector Boards

    Opportunities to increase the proportion of female board members in Germany's financial sector were missed during post-crisis period of management shakeups. As of 2011, the proportion of women on executive boards was still as low as in previous years: 3.2 percent in Germany's 100 largest banks and savings banks and 3.6 percent at 59 insurance companies surveyed. The percentage of women on supervisory ...

    2012| Elke Holst, Julia Schimeta
  • Weitere externe Aufsätze

    Impact of ICT and Human Skills on the European Financial Intermediation Sector

    In: Morten Balling, Ernest Gnan, Frank Lierman, Jean-Pierre Schoder (Eds.) , Productivity in the Financial Services Sector
    Wien : SUERF
    S. 183-199
    SUERF Study ; 2009/4
    | Georg Erber, Reinhard Madlener
  • Diskussionspapiere 1082 / 2010

    Reinforcing EU Governance in Times of Crisis: The Commission Proposals and Beyond

    The recent extensive package introduced by the Commission is the "most comprehensive reinforcement of economic governance in the EU and the euro area since the launch of the Economic and Monetary Union. Broader and enhanced surveillance of fiscal policies, but also macroeconomic policies and structural reforms are sought in the light of the shortcomings of the existing legislation. New enforcement ...

    2010| Ansgar Belke
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