[Background and aims of this position paper] Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, it has become ever clearer that it poses an enormous challenge for society. The lockdown imposed on large parts of public life, which hit all social groups and institutions relatively abruptly with a wide range of...

This study analyses the impact of digitalisation on nursing schools. The phenomenon of digitalisation is going to reach every domain of human life - the private and the professional. This is also evident for the (long-term) care sector and its nursing schools. In this growing industry the...

While there is a broad consensus in the literature that stock ownership is associated with individual characteristics, such as wealth, income, risk preferences, and financial literacy, less is known about the dynamics of stock market participation (SMP). Major fluctuations in SMP are oftentimes...

The paper describes the "Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) Forecasting Dashboard (ForDas)". This tool aims at providing, on a non-commercial basis, historical and actual macroeconomic forecast data for the Germany economy to researchers and interested audiences. The database renders it...

After the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis, the number of insolvency filings has reached a record low in 2020. However, industry sectors are affected differently. In the early phase of the COVID-19 crisis, the number of insolvencies in the service sector decreased most substantially. In the third...

In 2020, firms expected their innovation expenditures to decrease by about 2% in 2020 compared to 2019. This decline is much smaller than that in 2009 following the financial crisis, when innovation expenditures fell by 11%. However, smaller firms with 5 to 99 employees planned to cut their...