1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2013

    Real-Time Macro Monitoring and Fiscal Policy

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2012

    Rules Versus Discretion in Bank Lending Decisions

    This paper analyzes the importance of discretion in bank lending decisions. We use a unique dataset of more than 1 million loan applications to customers of German savings banks and can observe accept and reject…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2012

    Carbon Price as Renewable Energy Support? Empirical Analysis on Wind Power in Denmark

    Empirical analysis on wind energy in Denmark is used to quantify the impact of the various support policies in place in the last decade and infer the carbon price that would lead to the same level of deployment…

  4. Discussion and Working Paper // 2012

    Carbon Price as Renewable Energy Support? Empirical Analysis on Denmark

    Empirical analysis on wind energy in Denmark is used to quantify the impact of the various support policies in place in the last decade and infer the carbon price that would lead to the same level of deployment…

  5. Discussion and Working Paper // 2012

    Gender Wage Gaps across Skills and Trade Openness

    This paper investigates how international trade impacts the gender wage gap at different points of the skill distribution, by integrating statistical discrimination and job assignment into a model of trade.…

  6. Discussion and Working Paper // 2012

    Gender Wage Gaps across Skills and Trade Openness

    This paper investigates how international trade impacts the gender wage gap at different points of the skill distribution, by integrating statistical discrimination and job assignment into a model of trade.…

  7. Discussion and Working Paper // 2012

    Gender Wage Discrimination and Trade Openness: prejudiced employers in an open industry

    This paper sheds light on the heterogeneous impact of international trade on the gender wage gap by introducing employer taste-based discrimination in an open economy model with imperfect competition. Firms…