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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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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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Regional social contexts and individual fertility decisions : a multilevel analysis of first and second birth in Western Germany

Hank, Karsten - 2002

western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. It is argued that regional opportunity structures as well as local patterns of …

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A Multilevel Analysis of Child Care and the Transition to Motherhood in Western Germany

Hank, Karsten; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - 2002

in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child …

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Do parties punish MPs for voting against the party line?

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; Riem, Marina - 2017

We examine whether parties punish politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. Using data of German members of parliament over the legislative period 2009-2013, we take into account that the effect of punishment differs along the list of candidates because a candidate is...

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The growth in military expenditure in Germany 1951 - 2011: did parties matter?

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015

We examine whether government ideology was correlated with the growth in military expenditure in Germany over the …

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Electoral cycles in MPs' salaries : evidence from the German States

Kauder, Björn; Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

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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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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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'...

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