This paper studies how banks compete amid digital disruption and the resulting distributional effect across consumers. Digital disruption increases the geographic coverage of banking services, bringing new entrants to local markets. However, as digital customers shift from branches to digital...

Topics include (but are not limited to): - Innovative methods for policy evaluation (e.g. based on field experiments) - Labor market policies for low-skilled, youth and other disadvantaged unemployed groups/welfare recipients - Labor market policies that deal with the aftermath of the...

The three-day conference will bring together specialists from around the world to discuss the latest research on inequality in a broad sense, including inequalities that affect individuals or population groups across many dimensions of wellbeing (income, labour market outcomes, education,...

We welcome empirical contributions on the general topics as well as on the focus topic from various disciplines, particularly from Economics, Social Sciences, and Educational Sciences. The Covid-19 pandemic has changed higher education in numerous ways. Not only do faculties face new challenges,...

The 5th Workshop on Spatial Dimensions of the Labour Market focuses on a broad range of topics related to regional labour markets. This year, a special focus is on aspects revolving around the Covid-19 crisis. Covid-19 is hitting local labour markets at a time when megatrends related to...

International entrepreneurs and entrepreneurially-oriented smaller firms have dominated the growth of the global economy in the past two decades. These firms have grown to become International New Ventures, Born Global, Born Digitals, Early Internationalizing Enterprises that compete...

Das Ziel dieses Workshops ist es, eine internationale Gruppe von Arbeits- und experimentellen ÖkonomInnen zusammenzubringen. Themen von Interesse sind unter anderem: - Dynamik von geschlechtsspezifischen Unterschieden in Bildung und Arbeitsmarkt; - Wechselwirkungen zwischen Geschlechternormen,...

Die Themen der Bits & Bäume 2022 decken Inhalte an der Schnittstelle von Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung ab. Sie reichen von vernetzter Mobilität über den Rohstoff- und Strombedarf digitaler Geräte, Datensuffizienz und kooperativen Plattformökonomien bis hin zu smarten Energienetzen oder...

During the workshop prominent academics working in the field of Industrial Organization and Digital Economics will provide short lectures on relevant competition and regulatory issues in digital markets. In the remaining time, workshop participants will present their research and discussion...

Der 18. IWH/IAB-Workshop zur Arbeitsmarktpolitik diskutiert die Auswirkungen von Demografie und Transformationsprozessen auf Betriebe und Erwerbspersonen sowie geeignete politische Maßnahmen, um negativen Folgen dieser Entwicklungen auf das Arbeitskräfteangebot entgegenzuwirken. Topics: -...