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News from the IAW
IAW Research Report No. 73 released:
- Daniela Witczak:
Reforminduzierte Anpassungen des zu versteuernden Einkommens
IAW-Forschungsbericht Nr. 73, Hohenheimer Dissertation D 100, 172 S., 19,-- EUR, ISBN 978-3-88573-058-3, Tübingen, 2011 - Katja Neugebauer:
Bank Risk and Cross-Border Banking: An Empirical Analysis.
IAW-Forschungsbericht Nr. 72, Dissertation an der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Tübingen, 160 S., 18,-- EUR, Tübingen , 2011
On December 2-3, 2011: THE Christmas Workshop at the University of Hohenheim
The workshop is a joint project of the department of economics and the competence centre economics of the FZID at the University of Hohenheim, the department of economics and social sciences at the University of Tübingen and the IAW Tübingen. Aim of the workshop is to intensify the cooperation between the participating institutions and promote joint research.
Winter School: Professor Marco Lombardi (European Central Bank), “Bayesian Econometrics for Macroeconomists”
More information from here.
On December 1st, 2011: Conference organized by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology "Competitiveness in Europe - Stability and Growth" at Berlin:
Topic Group I: Concepts for increased competitiveness
Topic Group II: Ways out of the debt crisis
- Dr Horst Reichenbach, Head, Task Force for Greece, European Commission
- Reza Moghadam, PhD, Director, European Department, IMF
- Prof Dr Claudia Buch, Chairperson, Scientific Advisory Council to the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, and Scientific Director of the IAW
November 21, 2011: Evaluation of the existing minimum wage regulations in three industries (electrical trade, painters and varnishers and long-term care): No impact of minimum wages on employment.
The reports [in German] can be downloades from [here].
IAW-News 3/2011 online: Das "Jobwunder" in Baden-Württemberg – eine einzige Erklärung gibt es nicht. [ IAW-News 3/2011 ]
IAW Policy Report No. 8 released:
- Katja Neugebauer, Julia Spies:
Länderbericht Deutschland: Wie haben Exportunternehmen die Krise bewältigt?
IAW Policy Reports Nr. 8, September 2011, 2011 [382 kB]
On July 6, 2011 Prof. Dr. Claudia M. Buch, Scientific Director of the IAW and Professor at the University of Tübingen, has been appointed as scientific member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation. The Senate is responsible for questions relating to science and research policy. It represents the interests and concerns of scientific and academic research, promotes cooperation and advises governments, parliaments and public authorities by issuing scientifically founded statements. The DFG sets priorities in research by establishing thematic Priority Programmes and Research Units.
New IAW Discussion Papers released:
- Franziska M. Bremus, Vladimir Kuzin:
Unemployment and Portfolio Choice: Does Persistence Matter?
IAW Discussion Papers, No. 77, 2011, 2011 [972 kB] - Olga Bohachova, Bernhard Boockmann, Claudia Buch:
Labor Demand During the Crisis: What Happened in Germany?
IAW Discussion Papers, No. 76, 2011, 2011 [226 kB] - Alireza Naghavi, Julia Spies, Farid Toubal:
International Sourcing, Product Complexity and Intellectual Property Rights
IAW Discussion Papers, No. 75, 2011, 2011 [242 kB] - Jörn Kleinert, Julia Spies:
Endogenous Transport Costs in International Trade
IAW Discussion Papers, No. 74, 2011, 2011 [346 kB] - Philipp Bleninger, Gerd Ronning:
Disclosure Risk from Factor Scores
IAW Discussion Papers, No. 73, 2011, 2011 [492 kB] - Gerd Ronning:
Disclosure Risk from Interactions and Saturated Models in Remote Access
IAW Discussion Papers, No. 72, 2011, 2011 [252 kB]
IAW-News 2/2011 online: Konjunkturübertragung aus dem Ausland: Einfluss des Außenhandels dominiert sowie Wirtschaftskrise vor allem bei mittelständischen Exportunternehmen spürbar, Finanzierungsrestriktionen dort besonders hoch [ IAW-News 2/2011 ]
July 6, 2011: IAW-Seminar in Cooperation with the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Tübingen:
"The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance Over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates over Twenty Years"
Stefan Bender [IAB Nürnberg]
June 23-24, 2011: The EFIGE partnership (European Firms In a Global Economy / 7th EU Framework Programme), through its German partner, IAW [Academic Organizers: Sascha O. Becker (U Warwick) and Marc Muendler (UC San Diego)], is participating together with The World Bank, The International Labour Organisation (ILO), and CESifo, in the organisation of a two-day workshop entitled "Globalization and Labour Market Outcomes", at Geneva (Switzerland).
More information here.
German shadow economy expected to decrease in 2011: According to new estimates by Professor Friedrich Schneider (University of Linz) and the IAW, the German shadow economy is expected to fall by 1.5 % in 2011. The estimated volume of the shadow economy in relation to official gross domestic product remains constant. [ more ]
December 10 and 11, 2010: THE Christmas Workshop 2010 at the University of Hohenheim:
Winterschool: "Behavioral and Experimental Economics" with Prof. Dr. Matthias Sutter University of Innsbruck
" Program THE Christmas Workshop 2010".
November 19 and 20, 2010: International Scientific Workshop at the IAW:
Global and local firm linkages: Micro-level evidence on the structure and dynamics of enterprise activity
Keynote Speaker: Jens Südekum, University of Duisburg-Essen
Programme:" Global and Local Firm Linkages".
This workshop is organised in the framework of MICRO-DYN (www.micro-dyn.eu), an international research project funded by the EU 6th Framework Programme (www.cordis.lu) with socio-economic sciences and humanities (http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/index_en.html).