infonet-economy

Since information asymmetries have been identified as an important source of bank profits, it may seem that the establishment of information sharing will lead to lower investment in acquiring information. However, banks base their decisions on both hard and soft information, and it is only the former type of data that can be communicated credibly. We show that when hard information...

We study the long-run effects of initial labor market conditions on wages for a large sample of male individuals entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a robust negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages. This initial effect turns out to be quite persistent and even though wages do catch up later on, large effects on lifetime earnings...

Obwohl in der Ökonomik relativ wenig thematisiert, ist die «Zeit» für den ökonomischen Erfolg in der heutigen Wirtschaft von entscheidender Bedeutung.
Der Schnellere gewinnt den Wettbewerb, nicht der Grössere. Produktiver ist, wer weniger Zeit braucht, und rationalisieren heisst Zeit sparen: Je mehr man gleichzeitig tun kann, desto besser! Wer die Kontrolle über die Zeit hat,...

What is the nature of imperfections in the market for liquidity? Studying bidder level data from European Central Bank (ECB) repo auctions, we find that this market appears to be informationally efficient in the sense that participants do not have private information about future short-term rates. However, auction allocations affect banks' subsequent behavior in a way that is...

Der International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) hat Anfang Juli 2009 den International Financial Reporting Standard for Small and Medium-sized Entities (kurz: IFRS-SME) veröffentlicht. Gegenstand ist die Finanzberichterstattung nicht öffentlich rechenschaftspflichtiger Unternehmen mit externen Stakeholdern. Im Vergleich zu den full IFRS wurden Themen, die für KMU irrelevant sind...