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

Buch, Claudia M. - 2000

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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Distance and international banking

Buch, Claudia M. - 2001

bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and liabilities of commercial banks from five countries (France, Germany …

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

Buch, Claudia M.; Döpke, Jörg - 1999

-ins for monetary union with respect to Germany. Using tests for cointegration and common features for monthly data during the …

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Unoberserved components models for quarterly German GDP

Flaig, Gebhard - 2002

In this paper, an Unobserved Components Model is employed to decompose German real GDP into the trend, cycle and seasonal components and the working day effect. The most important findings are: 1) The growth rate of potential output declined from 4.2 per cent in the sixties to 1.4 per cent at...

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Estimating the output gap using business survey data : a bivariate structural time series model for the German economy

Flaig, Gebhard; Ploetscher, Claudia - 2000

This paper deals with the estimation of the output gap. We use uni- and bivariate unobserved components models in order to decompose the observed German GDP-series into trend, cycle and seasonal components. The results show that using the ifo business assessment variable as an indicator for the...

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Input demand and the short- and long-run employment thresholds : an empirical analysis for the German manufacturing sector

Flaig, Gebhard; Rottmann, Horst - 2000

The concept of the employment threshold plays an important role in the public discussion of unemployment. The employment threshol d is defined as that growth rate of output which is necessary to keep employment constant despite the continuous rise in labour productivity. It is related to the...

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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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Why do banks go abroad? : evidence from German data

Buch, Claudia M. - 1999

This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign activities of German banks. We use regionally disaggregated panel data for the years 1981-98 and distinguish foreign direct investment from total foreign assets of domestic banks, of their foreign branches and their...

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What determines maturity? : an analysis for foreign assets of German commercial banks

Buch, Claudia M. - 2000

Surges and reversals of short-term foreign liabilities are often held responsible for instabilities in international financial markets. Yet, empirical evidence on the factors determining the maturity of capital flows is scant. This paper analyzes the determinants of foreign assets of German...

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Dissonant works councils and establishment survivability

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 2019

plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects of worker representation on plant survivability have been little …

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