This paper studies risk-taking by European banks. We construct a measure of risk-taking which relates changes in three month ahead expected credit standards for several non-financial private sector categories to risk of the macroeconomic environment banks operate in to reflect whether credit...

This paper investigates in how far monetary policy shocks impact Euro- pean asset markets, conditional on different risk states. It focuses on four different asset classes: equity of industrial firms, equity of banks, high-grade corporate bonds, and high-yielding corporate bonds. We distinguish...

Im Mai 2011 stellt Deutschland als eines der letzten EU-Länder gegenüber den acht im Jahre 2004 beigetretenen ost- und mitteleuropäischen EU-Ländern die volle Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit her. Es ist von hohem Interesse, welche Migrationswirkungen der damit verbundene Verlust von...

The project equal pacE aimed to provide and promote a web tool by which companies can voluntarily analyse their pay structures and detect a potentially existing gender pay gap and its causes. The equal pacE web tool has been made available in five languages: Dutch, English, Finnish, French, and...