Showing 1 - 10 of 17
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'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923511
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570042
Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137244
results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121755
Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096121
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108229
Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158067
basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777826
Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced exclusively for entrepreneurs in 1994 and 1999-2000. These tax reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778434
We analyze potential effects of demographic change and political constellations on higher education spending. In our panel analysis of west German states (Laender) for the period 1985 to 2002 we find empirical evidence for the hypothesis of a negative relationship between demographic aging and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779062