Young entrepreneurial firms are of critical importance for innovation. But to bring their new ideas to the market, these startups depend on investors who understand and are willing to accept the risk associated with a new firm. Perhaps the key reason as to why the US has succeeded in producing...

We conduct stress tests for a large sample of German banks across different recoveries from the Corona recession. We find that, depending on how quickly the economy recovers, between 6% to 28% of banks could become distressed from defaulting corporate borrowers alone. Many of these banks are...

The German government launched an unprecedented range of support programmes to mitigate the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic for employees, self-employed, and firms. Fiscal transfers and guarantees amount to approximately €1.2 billion by now and are supplemented by similarly...

Die Investitionstätigkeit der Kommunen in Deutschland hängt im Wesentlichen von der örtlichen Finanzkraft ab und weist daher eine erhebliche räumliche Streuung auf. Doch gewisse regionale Unterschiede bei den Investitionen sind durchaus angemessen, wenn man die zukünftigen...