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Information or regulation : what Is driving the international activities of commercial banks?
Buch, Claudia M. - 2000
Information costs and regulatory barriers are the main distinguishing features of international financial markets as compared to national financial markets. This paper presents a simple model of the impact of these factors on banks' cross-border activities and provides empirical evidence. Our...
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Distance and international banking
Buch, Claudia M. - 2001
bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and liabilities of commercial banks from five countries (France, Germany …
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Real and financial integration in Europe : evidence for the accession states and for the pre-ins
Buch, Claudia M.; Döpke, Jörg - 1999
-ins for monetary union with respect to Germany. Using tests for cointegration and common features for monthly data during the …
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Self-selection into export markets by business services firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages …
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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo - 2010
In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …
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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien
Wagner, Gert G.; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000
In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …
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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998
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Exports and profitability first evidence for German manufacturing firms
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2008
Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …
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Offshoring and firm performance: self-selection, effects on performance, or both?
Wagner, Joachim - 2009
what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …
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Exports, R&D and productivity: A test of the Bustos-model with German enterprise data
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This paper presents the first empirical test with German firm level data of a hypothesis derived by Bustos (AER 2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in...
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