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Press Releases // 27.11.2019Senior managers’ personal histories play a key role in the European Investment Bank (EIB) lending process, with loans for financing large infrastructure projects being more likely to flow into a region [...] from the EIB increases by 17 percentage points if at least one person from that region sits on the Bank’s Board of Directors. “We cannot rule out the possibility that this lending practice leads to a mi [...] motives. It is possible that Board members simply decide in favour of their own region due to prevalent social connections, for example. Exclusive knowledge of the local conditions in the home region could just
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Events // 27.03.2019
towns in the medieval and interwar period, bank-firm linkages, stock prices on the Berlin exchange, and voting data from Hamburg. It is being examined how social networks, economic shocks, and narratives
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Press Releases // 03.01.2019“Health Economics” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in 2011, where she later served as head of the unit “Old-Age Provision and Social Policy” from 2014 to 2018. Bucher-Koenen’s research [...] for European Economic Research in Mannheim. Her research focuses particularly on pension schemes, social policy and financial literacy. Tabea Bucher-Koenen looks forward to commencing her work at ZEW: “I [...] Research Department “International Finance and Financial Management” deals with issues related to bank regulation, the effects of the European financial architecture on the real economy, household finance
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News // 05.07.2010
According to some critics, the austerity package passed on 7 June 2010 is a “social impertinence”, involving unrivalled “orgies of austerity at the expense of the poor”. The outrage campaigns and protest [...] fairly successful thus far. But this raises a number of questions, namely: Where is this supposed social imbalance in the austerity package? And how do the alternative saving measures suggested by the [...] those who hardly make any pensions contributions during their working life can still claim basic social security in old age or during unemployment. However, the cuts are to be made to the statutory state
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Press Releases // 03.07.2018was awarded the prize by ZEW for his excellent investigation into the role of the European Central Bank (ECB) in instilling confidence for government bonds of European countries such as Spain and Italy [...] purpose in mind, Michael Stiefel and his co-author examined short comments or “tweets” published on the social media platform Twitter, which they analysed with the help of modern machine learning based techniques [...] “whatever it takes” speech in July 2012 helped to restore confidence in an intervention from the central bank among market participants. The paper also provides evidence that the risk surcharges on the Portuguese
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News // 04.05.2018differences between the Member States? How important is the social dimension of the Eurozone and what are the risks associated with macro-social disparity? If we have a European Monetary Union, don’t we [...] strengthen this structure, singling out one of the key concerns with regard to the completion of the banking union, the highly controversial European deposit insurance scheme (EDIS), as particularly important
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News // 20.04.2018conference was conveying these findings to agents based at government ministries and the central banks who may want to implement the presented modelling approaches in the future as a means of backing up [...] discussed. Professor Jacques Mairesse from the United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-Merit) identified positive effects of the R&D [...] Innovation and Industrial Dynamics”. Professor Peter McAdam, a principal economist at the European Central Bank, emphasised the complexity involved with designing new and efficient research and innovation policies
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News // 20.02.2013
University of Heidelberg. Matthias Köhler , “Integration, Regulation and Corporate Governance in the EU Banking Sector”. Professor Reint Gropp, European Business School – International University Schloß Reich [...] Schmidt , “Interest Rate Dynamics, Interest Rate Expectations and the Operational Framework of Central Banks”, Professor Dieter Nautz, Free University of Berlin. Susanne Steffes , “Employment Dynamics and H [...] Relative Income and Redistribution”, Professor Claudia Senik, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Hannes Ulrich , “Essays in Applied Microeconomics and Econometrics”, Professor Ulrich Kaiser
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News // 29.01.2018Brexit in EU law is sure to be creative and flexible, as was the case for the Greek bailouts and banking crisis in Italy. Some members of the audience took issue with this argument, and the discussion [...] By contrast, Elmar Brok argued that Brexit would not limit immigrants from entering the British social security system, and that Britain already has tools at its disposal as an EU member to limit such
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News // 15.03.2005
haggle the salesman at the car dealership down to his final offer and suffer palpitations when their bank imposes high interest rates at the mere whiff of risk. However, when these companies try to satisfy [...] human dignity. However, when you ask these outraged poverty officials to suggest how the generous social benefits they are calling for might be funded, they can’t come up with anything beyond a wealth tax [...] “non-words” such as “Rentnerschwemme” (“glut of retirees”) and “sozialverträgliches Frühableben” (“socially responsible dying”). While the concept of human capital is inextricably linked with human beings