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The international transmission of monetary policy

Buch, Claudia M.; Bussière, Matthieu; Goldberg, Linda S.; … - 2018

This paper presents the novel results from an internationally coordinated project by the International Banking Research Network (IBRN) on the cross-border transmission of conventional and unconventional monetary policy through banks. Teams from seventeen countries use confidential micro-banking...

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Quantifying Brexit : from ex post to ex ante using structural gravity

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; … - 2018

Exploiting changes in the geography of economic integration in Europe, this paper uses detailed bilateral trade data for 50 sectors to carry out an econometric ex post evaluation of the trade cost effects of the United Kingdom's various arrangements with the European Union. The analysis reveals...

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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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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Giammario, Impullitti; Prat, Julien - 2014

Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....

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Mitigating liquidity constraints : public export credit guarantees in Germany

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Heiland, Inga; Yalçin, Erdal - 2012

guarantees in Germany. Covering the default risk of exporters' foreign customers, the policy is supposed to enable funding of …

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Wage Cyclicality Under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations

Gartner, Hermann - 2010

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

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Let's Take Bargaining Models Seriously : The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009

Hirsch, Boris - 2011

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …

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Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments

Fackler, Daniel - 2012

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 …

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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2012

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …

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