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Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and Britain. That said, comparatively … in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …
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firms' choice of governance structures for the employment relationship in Britain and in (western and eastern) Germany. Both …-employer collective bargaining clearly dominates in Germany. Econometric analyses show that more or less the same set of variables play a …
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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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In this paper, we make multi-step forecasts of the monthly growth rates of the prices and rents for flats in 26 largest German cities. Given the small time dimension, the forecasts are done in a panel-data format. In addition, we use panel models that account for spatial dependence between the...
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-section data for Germany, this paper analyzes the retirement consumption puzzle for the German case. For our broadest consumption …
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