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Volatile Multinationals? Evidence from the Labor Demand of German Firms
Buch, Claudia M. - 2016
Does more FDI make the world a riskier place for workers? We analyze whether an increase in multinational firms' activities is associated with an increase in firm-level employment volatility. We use a firm-level dataset for Germany which allows us to distinguish between purely domestic firms,...
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Active and Passive Investing
Garleanu, Nicolae - 2020
We model how investors allocate between asset managers, managers choose their portfolios of multiple securities, fees are set, and security prices are determined. The optimal passive portfolio is linked to the “expected market portfolio,” while the optimal active portfolio has elements of...
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Information or regulation: what is driving the international activities of commercial banks?
Buch, Claudia M. - 2000
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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 …-section dimension of information costs and changes in regulations, in particular, for intra-EU asset holdings. While EU membership per … a positive impact. While regulations and information costs are important for all reporting countries, their relative …
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Macroeconomic factors and micro-level bank risk
Buch, Claudia M.; Eickmeier, Sandra; Prieto, Esteban - 2010
The interplay between banks and the macroeconomy is of key importance for financial and economic stability. We analyze this link using a factor-augmented vector autoregressive model (FAVAR) which extends a standard VAR for the U.S. macroeconomy. The model includes GDP growth, inflation, the...
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In search for yield? : Survey-based evidence on bank risk taking
Buch, Claudia M.; Eickmeier, Sandra; Prieto, Esteban - 2011
macroeconomic indicators and factors summarizing information provided in the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Terms of Business Lending …
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In Search for yield? : new survey-based evidence on bank risk taking
Buch, Claudia M.; Eickmeier, Sandra; Prieto, Esteban - 2011
.S. for the years 1997-2008. We include standard macroeconomic indicators and factors summarizing information provided in the …
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Distance and international banking
Buch, Claudia M. - 2001
If the technological revolution which has taken place over the past decades has lowered information costs and if … information costs increase in distance, distance should - ceteris paribus - become less important in determining international …
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Distance and international banking
Buch, Claudia M. - 2001
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Low skill but high volatility?
Buch, Claudia M.; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2009
Globalization may impose a double-burden on low-skilled workers. On the one hand, the relative supply of low-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand, low-skilled workers typically face more limited access...
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