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Going multinational : what are the effects on home market performance?
Jäckle, Robert (contributor) - 2006
A number of recent studies and evidence for the existence of a persistent performance gap between multinational enterprises (MNE) and their domestic competitors. Therefore, the question arises whether successful firms become MNEs or whether going abroad improves home market performance. This...
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Exports versus FDI in German manfacturing : firm performance and participation in international markets
Arnold, Jens Matthias (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have focused on different trade patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity differences between firms determine the degree of...
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Core inflation rates : a comparison of methods based on west German data
Landau, Bettina - 2000
) Germany. In addition, the different methods are examined critically from a theoretical perspective, focusing on two types of …Die vorliegende Studie präsentiert einen Vergleich zwischen verschiedenen Methoden für die Kalkulation der … Analyse von Daten für den Preisindex für die Lebenshaltung für (West-)Deutschland. Daneben werden die Methoden aus …
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Evaluating density forecasts with an application to stock market returns
Raaij, Gabriela de; Raunig, Burkhard - 2002
Density forecasts have become quite important in economics and finance. For example, such forecasts play a central role in modern financial risk management techniques like Value at Risk. This paper suggests a regression based density forecast evaluation framework as a simple alternative to other...
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Financial systems and the role of banks in monetary policy transmission in the euro area
Ehrmann, Michael; Gambacorta, Leonardo; Martínez … - 2001
This paper offers a comprehensive comparison of the structure of banking and financial markets in the euro area. Based …Dieses Papier bietet einen umfassenden Vergleich zwischen den Strukturen der Banksysteme und Finanzmärkte im Eurogebiet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419463
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German bank lending to industrial and non-industrial countries : driven by fundamentals or different treatment?
Nestmann, Thorsten (contributor) - 2005
This paper shows that the substantial disparity in German bank lending towards industrial (IC) and non-industrial (Non-IC) countries is largely explained by differences in countries’ endowments and only to a minor extent by German banks’ different treatment of these country groups. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003079228
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The determinants of intra-firm trade : in search for export-import magnification effects
Egger, Peter (contributor); Pfaffermayr, Michael (contributor) - 2005
This paper studies the determinants of Austrian bilateral intra-firm trade in a panel of industry-level intra-firm goods trade flows. Economic size, unit labor costs and the magnification effects originating from multiple border crossing of sequentially finished products are found to be the most...
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FDI versus cross-border financial services : the globalisation of German banks
Buch, Claudia M. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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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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Does diversification improve the performance of German banks? : Evidence from individual bank loan portfolios
Hayden, Evelyn (contributor); Porath, Daniel (contributor);  … - 2006
Should banks be diversified or focused? Does diversification indeed lead to enhanced performance and, therefore, greater safety for banks, as traditional portfolio and banking theory would suggest? This paper investigates the link between banks' profitability (ROA) and their portfolio...
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