Die PhD Summer School on Sustainable Supply Chains findet als B-Tagung an der FernUniversität Hagen statt. The EURO PhD Summer School will lead to the 4th Conference on Sustainable Supply Chains from June 29 to July 1, 2023 in Hagen. The school offers an active forum for PhD students and early...

Topics: - How firms react to trade shocks - How trade shocks propagate across markets within firms - How trade policies affect the behavior of firms - The role of firm networks in international markets - How trade shocks affect firms’ modes of serving foreign markets - How trade shocks affect...

Economists need not only to have a clear idea of which instruments are most efficient and how their impacts can be evaluated ex post. Economists also need to understand why policymakers and voters sometimes oppose the use of such instruments. This is the focus of the CESifo Workshop on...

What data firms collect, how they use them, and whether they have tools in place that facilitate data driven decision making, including machine learning and AI based methods, is at the core of modern productivity studies. As is the question of what facilitates or hinders adoption of these modern...

The 2023 Easter School will be hosted by the University of Bristol and will be an in-person event at the University campus. The school will consist of guest lectures, presentations by participants and policy sessions over three days along with a social element to allow for networking. The Easter...

A workhorse two-country portfolio model that embeds net foreign asset (NFA) imbalances rationalizes the following observation: debtor countries have on average a less diversified international portfolio than creditor countries. Abstracting from NFA imbalances, the model would feature a...

We evaluate the impact of loan-to-value restrictions on household financial vulnerability. Using Norwegian tax data, we first document a beneficial leverage effect, in which households respond to the regulation by reducing house purchase probabilities, debt and interest expenses. Second, we...

We introduce shocks to the availability of US dollar funding for non-US financial intermediaries in a two-country New Keynesian model with financial frictions. Such dollar shortages lead to uncovered interest rate parity deviations and have a significant negative effects on the macroeconomy....

This paper investigates how monetary expansion affects household consumption and savings through household debts. Using monetary policy cuts in China in the end of 2008 as an experiment, we find that the resulted increase in indebted households’ disposable income leads to increasing...

Decentralized Finance (DEFI) is changing the financial landscape. What are the consequences on market infrastructures, financial actors, the transmission of monetary policy? Does the concept of "Commons" introduced by Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, offer a relevant...