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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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Do entrepreneurs matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691623

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

Trade and tasks : an exploration over three decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2014

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464704

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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Financial Constraints and the Margins of FDI

Buch, Claudia M. - 2016

Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross-border expansion of firms. But firms may also need external finance to shoulder the costs of entering foreign markets. We develop a model of multinational firms facing real and...

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Great Moderation at the Firm Level? Unconditional Versus Conditional Output Volatility

Buch, Claudia M. - 2016

trends in unconditional firm level and aggregated output volatility in Germany are similar. There has been a long …

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