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Unit Labor Cost Growth Differentials in the Euro Area, Germany, and the US: Lessons from PANIC and Cluster Analysis

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2007

Inflation differentials in the Euro area are mainly due to a sustained divergence of wage developments across the Euro area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of inflation using unit labour cost (ULC) growth and applying...

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What Causes Cross-industry Differences of Technical Efficiency? An Empirical Investigation

Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2004

Using micro-level panel data of about 35,000 firms from the German Cost Structure Census, we analyze the differences of technical efficiency across industries. Technical efficiency is estimated by firms? fixed effects. One striking result is that the distribution of technical efficiency across...

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'Marginal Employment' and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence from a Multi-Factor Labour Demand Model for Germany

Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …? social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. …

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Effective profit taxation and the elasticity of the corporate income tax base: evidence from German corporate tax return data

Dwenger, Nadja; Steiner, Viktor - 2008

introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany. Endogeneity of the effective tax rate is controlled for by an instrumental …

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Financial leverage and corporate taxation: evidence from German corporate tax return data

Dwenger, Nadja; Steiner, Viktor - 2009

corporate tax reform in Germany. The financial leverage is measured by the ratio of long-term debt to total capital. Endogeneity …

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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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Testing for convergence in stock markets: a non-linear factor approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Erdogan, Burcu; Kuzin, … - 2009

including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as …

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Do external technology acquisitions matter for innovative efficiency and productivity?

Gantumur, Tseveen; Stephan, Andreas - 2010

To quickly adapt to technological change and developments, and thus remain competitive, firms increasingly resort to the use of external technology. This paper investigates whether and to what extent the acquisition of external disembodied technology affects the efficiency and productivity in...

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Outsourcing and Firm-level Performance

Görzig, Bernd; Stephan, Andreas - 2002

Using firm-level panel data from the German cost structure survey over the period 1992 to 2000, our empirical analysis shows that firms that increased material inputs relative to internal labor costs performed better in terms of gross operating surplus than other firms. However, firms that...

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