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Technological sophistication made in China? : new insights from Germany's evaluation of COVID-19 antigen rapid tests

Dreier, Silas; Liu, Wan-hsin - 2023

By analyzing a unique dataset from Germany’s evaluation of COVID-19 antigen rapid tests, we show that Chinese firms can excel under today’s global competition and produce tests at quality levels higher than China’s income level would suggest. We find these achievements are positively...

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Consumer price adjustment under the microscope : Germany in a period of low inflation

Hoffmann, Johannes (contributor); … - 2006

We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price … data from the German Consumer Price Index which covers the years 1998 to 2003. We strong find evidence of time- and state …-dependent price adjustment. Most importantly, the differences in unconditionalʺ sectoral price flexibility are found to be linked to …

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Verschwörung oder Marktwirtschaft? : was bestimmt die Benzinpreise?

Kasten, Christiane; Klepper, Gernot - 2001

Die starken Preissteigerungen für Benzin in den letzten 2 Jahren sind häufig auf mangelnden Wettbewerb zurückgeführt worden. Die These wird überprüft, indem die Wettbewerbsstruktur bei Tankstellen und deren Vorleistungsbeziehungen dargestellt werden und ökonometrische Schätzungen über...

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Pharmaceutical prices: the impact of the launch strategy : an analysis of German data

Böhler, Yvonne-Beatrice; Lamping, Christian; Wichardt, … - 2019

This paper reports the results from a statistical analysis of pharmaceutical price negotiations in Germany, where the …' launch strategy (freely chosen first year price) still has a major impact on pricing while the impact of the additional …

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Measuring business sector concentration by an infection model

Düllmann, Klaus (contributor) - 2006

Results from portfolio models for credit risk tell us that loan concentration in certain industry sectors can substantially increase the value-at-risk (VaR). The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether a tractable infection modelʺ can provide a meaningful estimate of the impact of...

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The coordination channel of foreign exchange intervention : a nonlinear microstructural analysis

Reitz, Stefan (contributor); Taylor, Markt P. (contributor) - 2006

The coordination channel has been proposed as a means by which foreign exchange market intervention may be effective, in addition to the traditional portfolio balance and signaling channels. If strong and persistent misalignments of the exchange rate are caused by non-fundamental influences,...

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Real-time macroeconomic data and ex ante predictability of stock returns

Döpke, Jörg (contributor); Hartmann, Daniel (contributor); … - 2006

We report results on the ex ante predictability of monthly excess stock returns in Germany using real-time and revised macroeconomic data. Our real-time macroeconomic data cover the period 1994-2005. We report three results. 1) Real-time macroeconomic data did not contribute much to ex ante...

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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor); … - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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Identifying the role of labor markets for monetary policy in an estimated DSGE model

Christoffel, Kai (contributor); Küster, Keith (contributor) - 2006

We focus on a quantitative assessment of rigid labor markets in an environment of stable monetary policy. We ask how wages and labor market shocks feed into the inflation process and derive monetary policy implications. Towards that aim, we structurally model matching frictions and rigid wages...

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What kind of shock was it? : Regional integration and structural change in Germany after unification

Burda, Michael C. (contributor) - 2007

conditions, observed factor price differentials contain information on those adjustment costs. …

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