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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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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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The personal distribution of income and imputed rent: A cross-national comparison for the UK, West Germany, and the USA

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2002

differences between the Anglo-Saxon countries and Germany in terms of prevalence and extent of IR as well as in terms of the …

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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national Perspective

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2007

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...

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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations

Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to … council ; Germany …

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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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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...

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Time series properties of the German monthly production index

Flaig, Gebhard - 2003

The production index is an important indicator for assessing the cyclical state of the economy. Unfortunately, the monthly time series is contaminated by many noisy components like seasonal variations, calendar and vacation effects. Only part of those nuisance components are explicitly...

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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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