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Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Kohl, Tristan - 2021

countries around the world, including Canada, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and possibly the United States …

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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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Labor demand during the crisis : what happened in Germany?

Bohachova, Olga; Boockmann, Bernhard; Buch, Claudia M. - 2011 - This version: October 2011

In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries …

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The strategic bombing of German cities during World War II and its impact on city growth

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2002

process. Our main finding is that city growth in western Germany did not follow a random walk, while city growth in eastern … Germany did follow a random walk. Different post-war economic systems are most likely responsible for this outcome. …

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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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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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The empirical relevance of the new economic geography : testing for a spatial wage structure in Germany

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2000

-unification Germany. We find support for a spatial wage structure for German city-district wages, and hence indirectly for the relevance … of a new economic geography model for Germany. We also find that demand linkages in Germany are strongly localised and … that the old border still matters to the extent that economic interactions between western and eastern Germany are still …

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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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