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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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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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Do banks benefit from internationalization? Revisiting the market power-risk nexus

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Koetter, Michael - 2010

Recent developments on international financial markets have called the benefits of bank globalization into question. Large, internationally active banks have acquired substantial market power, and international activities have not necessarily made banks less risky. Yet, surprisingly little is...

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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations

Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

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

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Business Cycle Volatility in Germany

Buch, Claudia M.; Doepke, Joerg; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2002

structural breaks in the dynamics and the volatility of the real output process in Germany can be detected. We report evidence … that output volatility has declined in Germany. Yet, this decline in output volatility is not as clear-cut as it is in the … in Germany reflects good economic and monetary policy or merely ?good luck?. …

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What Determines Maturity? An Analysis for Foreign Assets of German Commercial Banks

Buch, Claudia M. - 2000

Surges and reversals of short-term foreign liabilities are often held responsible for instabilities in international financial markets. Yet, empirical evidence on the factors determining the maturity of capital flows is scant. This paper analyzes the determinants of foreign assets of German...

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Heterogeneity in lending and sectoral growth: evidence from German bank-level data

Schertler, Andrea; Buch, Claudia M.; von Westernhagen, … - 2006

This paper studies the sectoral and geographical dimensions of the response of bank lending to sectoral growth. We use several bank-level datasets provided by the Deutsche Bundesbank for the 1996-2002 period. Our results show that bank heterogeneity affects how lending responds to domestic...

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Margins of international banking: is there a productivity pecking order in banking, too?

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Koetter, 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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Where Enterprises Lead, People Follow? Links between Migration and German FDI

Buch, Claudia M.; Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2003

Globalization has affected the integration of markets through many different channels, including movements of factors and trade in goods. From a theoretical point of view, the interaction between the different channels of integration can take different forms. The aim of this paper is to analyze...

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