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-ins for monetary union with respect to Germany. Using tests for cointegration and common features for monthly data during the …
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Information costs and regulatory barriers are the main distinguishing features of international financial markets as compared to national financial markets. This paper presents a simple model of the impact of these factors on banks' cross-border activities and provides empirical evidence. Our...
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bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and liabilities of commercial banks from five countries (France, Germany …
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Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …
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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'...
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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...
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We examine whether government ideology was correlated with the growth in military expenditure in Germany over the …
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We examine moonlighting by politicians in Germany. In July 2007, the German Supreme Court adjudicated that members of … contributions, interpellations, and group initiatives. We propose that the results for Germany do not corroborate evidence on other …
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Members of parliament (MPs) often decide on their own salaries. Voters dislike self-serving politicians, and politicians are keen to gratify their voters. In line with the political business cycle theories, politicians thus may well delay deciding on increases in salaries until after elections....
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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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