This paper develops a new class of poverty and inequality measures we call common prosperity. This measure complements existing classes of measures and allows decomposition across income sources or components of consumption expenditure. This framework enables us to study the trade-off between...

The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general wellbeing, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies,...

Thematic Workshops: Workshop 1 – Areas of concern and proposals for less unequal worlds Workshop 2 – Unequal access to “invisible or online” education for those who already suffered from unequal access to “visible or in-person” education Workshop 3 – The Pandemic and the growing...

Lightning talks: - Tee Lip Hwe, Singapore Management University Libraries “Virtualisation of SMU Investment Studio” - Josep Soler Teixidor, Library Director, Esade Business School „Virtual Reality at Esade Library: Let’s start!“ - Dr. Ramin Nassehi, Lecturer (Teaching) in Economics,...

Professors Eric Ghysels, Massimiliano Marcellino and Jonas Straukas will a three-day course entitled “What's New in Mixed Frequency Data (MIDAS), with Applications to Machine Learning and Big Data”. The focus of the course is the use of mixed frequency data in economics and finance. A...

Co-authors: Domenico Giannone (Amazon.com) and Anna Kovner (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) We study the relationship between bank capital ratios and the distribution of future real GDP growth. Growth in the aggregate bank capital ratio corresponds to a smaller left tail of GDP—smaller...

How important is a relationship with a bank to a firm’s performance and survival? If firms can easily switch among different sources of credit supply, then the loss of any one source may have little implication for the firms that have borrowed from that source. However, to the extent that...

Lightning talks: - Elisa Rodenburg, Research Data Steward, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Data Horror Virtual Escape Room"; - Samuel Simango, Manager Research Data Services at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, "The Gamification of Research Data Managements"; - Markus Herklotz,...

Der geplante Workshop soll empirisch Forschenden in Deutschland und darüber hinaus die Möglichkeit geben sich über die nicht-binäre Erhebungen von Geschlecht auszutauschen. Hierbei sollen unterschiedliche Operationalisierungen und Erhebungsstrategien diskutiert und Erfahrungen ausgetauscht...

Data is critical to understanding the COVID-19 pandemic. When tracking the spread of SARS-CoV-2, there is a strong focus on epidemiological data such as aggregated case numbers and the reproduction rate. Modeling can help understand disease dynamics and make predictions about the future course...