Decentralized finance (DeFi) is a form of finance without central financial intermediaries. This handbook explores the interplay of behavioral finance and public policy in the emerging field of decentralized finance. The workexplaines the underlying mechanisms in a nutshell from a social...

We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard. Mitigating financial frictions reduces the incentive of high-skilled workers to migrate to one region such that an unequal distribution of industrial activity becomes less...

This paper examines the relationship between changes in the financial sector and the increasing inequality in Germany. For this, first an overview about the development of the main inequality indicators for Germany is given, which show inequality has been rising since the 1980s. Thereafter, the...