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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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The Ifo Investment Database

Strobel, Thomas; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013

In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in 50 German industries from 1991 onward. The data is consistent with national accounts statistics provided by the German Federal Statistical Office and is based on investments in...

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Assessing the macroeconomic forecasting performance of boosting : evidence for the United States, the Euro Area, and Germany

Buchen, Teresa; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013

to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …

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On the representativeness of the ifo business survey

Hiersemenzel, Magdolna; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2022

Germany. Moreover, the anonymized micro data can be used for a wide range of research projects. In order to obtain robust …

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Beyond the business climate : regular and supplementary questions in the ifo Business survey

Demmelhuber, Katrin; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2022

In the monthly ifo Business Survey around 9,000 German companies answer questions about their current business situation, expectations and plans for the near future as well as on other business variables. This paper provides an overview of all regular questions (monthly, quarterly, bi-annually,...

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How to measure research efficiency in higher education? : research grants vs. publication output

Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2018

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall amount of research grants. The present study...

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Who reports the mood in German boardrooms? : evidence from the ifo business survey

Hennrich, Jonas; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2023

The ifo Business Climate Index for Germany is considered as the most important leading indicator for the German economy …

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Asymmetric monetary policy effects in Germany

Tober, Silke; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2004

In a small structural model we find asymmetries in the effects of monetary policy in Germany depending on whether the …

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Declining Output Volatility in Germany : Impulses, Propagation, and the Role of Monetary Policy

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2004

We analyse the decline in output volatility in Germany. A lower level of variance in an autoregressive model of output … error term variance (reduced impulses). In Germany the decline output volatility is due to a decline in the persistence of … sudden break. The evolution of Germany's short-term real interest rate volatility coincides with the change of the …

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