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Information or regulation: what is driving the international activities of commercial banks?

Buch, Claudia M. - 2000

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Distance and international banking

Buch, Claudia M. - 2001

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Real and financial integration in Europe : evidence for the accession states and for the pre-ins

Buch, Claudia M. - 1999

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Margins of international banking : is there a productivity Pecking order in banking, too?

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Kötter, Michael - 2009

Modern trade theory emphasizes firm-level productivity differentials to explain the cross-border activities of non-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel dataset that contains all German banks'...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923511

Do better capitalized banks lend less? : long-run panel evidence from Germany

Buch, Claudia M.; Prieto, Esteban - 2012

Insufficient capital buffers of banks have been identified as one main cause for the large systemic effects of the recent financial crisis. Although higher capital is no panacea, it yet features prominently in proposals for regulatory reform. But how do increased capital requirements affect...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570042

Establishment age and wages : evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Prominent reasons why people make more or less money in the labor market include personal characteristics of the employee (e.g., human capital or gender), job characteristics (working conditions demanding compensating wage differentials), and characteristics of the employer (e.g., industry or...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001702058

Business cycle volatility in Germany

Buch, Claudia M.; Döpke, Jörg; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2002

structural breaks in the dynamics and the volatility of the real output process in Germany can be detected. We report evidence … that output volatility has declined in Germany. Yet, this decline in output volatility is not as clear-cut as it is in the … in Germany reflects good economic and monetary policy or merely `good luck'. …

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German works councils in the production process

Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2003

We estimate the effects of works councils on productivity, 1997 - 2000, using the IAB Establishment Panel, a nationally representative German data set. We recoup the works council effect by estimating translog production functions, stochastic frontier production functions, and a model in first...

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Determinants of German FDI : new evidence from micro-data

Buch, Claudia M.; Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2003

This paper provides new evidence on the foreign direct investment stocks of German firms. We use firm-level data for the years 1990-2000 to describe the regional and sectoral patterns of German FDI through gravity-type equations. We provide evidence on the patterns of FDI by sector, by size of...

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Trade union membership in Eastern and Western Germany : convergence or divergence?

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2003

unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling …

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