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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998

social norms. We develop a theoretical frame-work which nests various social custom models. Using micro data for Germany and …

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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien

Wagner, Gert G.; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000

In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …

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Financial constraints and capacity adjustment in the United Kingdom - evidence from a large panel of survey data

Kalckreuth, Ulf von (contributor); Murphy, Emma (contributor) - 2004

The interrelationship between financial constraints and firm activity is a hotly debated issue. The way firms cope with financial constraints is fundamental to the analysis of monetary transmission, of financial stability and of growth and development. The CBI Industrial Trends Survey contains...

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Risk aversion and trade union membership

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2008

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The coordination channel of foreign exchange intervention : a nonlinear microstructural analysis

Reitz, Stefan (contributor); Taylor, Markt P. (contributor) - 2006

The coordination channel has been proposed as a means by which foreign exchange market intervention may be effective, in addition to the traditional portfolio balance and signaling channels. If strong and persistent misalignments of the exchange rate are caused by non-fundamental influences,...

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Slippery slopes of stress : ordered failure events in German banking

Kick, Thomas (contributor); Koetter, Michael (contributor) - 2007

Outright bank failures without prior indication of financial instability are very rare. Supervisory authorities monitor banks constantly. Thus, they usually obtain early warning signals that precede ultimate failure and, in fact, banks can be regarded as troubled to varying degrees before...

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End-user order flow and exchange rate dynamics

Reitz, Stefan (contributor); Schmidt, Markus A. (contributor) - 2007

In this paper we provide evidence for Evans and Lyons' (2005b) model of an information aggregation process in FX markets using a German bank's end-user order flow from 2002 to 2003. Though customer order flow is unambiguously the vehicle incorporating non-public information into exchange rates...

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Do banks benefit from internationalization? : Revisiting the market power-risk nexus

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Koetter, Michael - 2010

groups and of different size. -- Market power-risk nexus ; international banking ; micro-data ; Germany …

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Are banks using hidden reserves to beat earnings benchmarks? : Evidence from Germany

Bornemann, Sven; Kick, Thomas; Memmel, Christoph; … - 2010

Section 340f of the German Commercial Code allows banks to provision against the special risks inherent to the banking business by building hidden reserves. Beyond risk provisioning, these reserves are implicitly accepted as an earnings management device. By analyzing financial statements of...

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Trade union membership and dismissals

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …

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