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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011877813
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Short-Run and Long-Term Effects of Childbirth on Mother's employment and working hours across institutional regimes : an empirical analysis based on the European community househol...
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct ?institutional regimes?, we estimate the short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260912
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Top incomes and top taxes in Germany
Bach, Stefan (contributor); Corneo, Giacomo (contributor);  … - 2006
We analyze the distribution and taxation of top incomes in Germany during the 1990s on the basis of individual tax … findings are as follows: (i) incomes are highly concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (ii) the German economic … concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (iv) although effective tax rates are significantly lower than statutory ones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003300942
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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'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923511
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570042
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375256
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Taxing banks : an evaluation of the German bank levy
Buch, Claudia M.; Hilberg, Björn; Tonzer, Lena - 2014
Bank distress can have severe negative consequences for the stability of the financial system, the real economy, and public finances. Regimes for restructuring and restoring banks financed by bank levies and fiscal backstops seek to reduce these costs. Bank levies attempt to internalize systemic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257339
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260899
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Work Incentives and Labor Supply Effects of the 'Mini-Jobs Reform' in Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2004
security contributions to people with low-earnings jobs) introduced in Germany in April 2003. The analysis is based on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324225
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324232