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Mitigating Liquidity Constraints: Public Export Credit Guarantees in Germany

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Heiland, Inga; Yalcin, Erdal - CESifo - 2012

Reportedly, firms often find it impossible to finance large and long-term projects despite positive net present values. Should governments step in and can their assistance be effective? This paper studies the case of public export credit guarantees in Germany. Covering the default risk of...

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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - CESifo - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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Ownership Concentration and Share Valuation: Evidence from Germany

Edwards, Jeremy; Weichenrieder, Alfons - CESifo - 1999

Concentrated ownership of large listed companies is widespread throughout the world, and Germany is typical in this respect. This paper proposes a method of distinguishing empirically between the beneficial and harmful effects of ownership concentration, and applies it to German data. The...

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Market Effects of Voluntary Climate Action by Firms: Evidence from the Chicago Climate Exchange

Gans, Will; Hintermann, Beat - CESifo - 2011

Why do for-profit firms take voluntary steps to improve the environment? Brand appeal to green consumers or investors, the ability to influence or avoid regulation, or the experience gained for future regulation, have all been suggested as possible reasons. The empirical evidence is decidedly...

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Does an R&D Tax Credit Affect R&D Expenditure? The Japanese R&D Tax Credit Reform in 2003

Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Shimotsu, Katsumi; Suzuki, Michio - CESifo - 2013

To what extent does a tax credit affect firms’ R&D activity? What are the mechanisms? This paper examines the effect of R&D tax credits on firms’ R&D expenditure by exploiting the variation across firms in the changes in the eligible tax credit rate between 2000 and 2003. Estimating the...

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The Signalling Channel of Central Bank Interventions: Modelling the Yen / US Dollar Exchange Rate

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael; Glanemann, Nicole - CESifo - 2011

This paper presents a theoretical framework analysing the signalling channel of exchange rate interventions as an informational trigger. We develop an implicit target zone framework with learning in order to model the signalling channel. The theoretical premise of the model is that interventions...

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Did the Japanese Patient Follow the Doctor's Orders? Mostly no! A Public Choice Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes in Japan before and after the Earthquake

Rudolph, Sven; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2011

’ energy and climate policy. Japan is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouses gases in the world and still far away from …, we ask what the political reasons for the failure of carbon markets in Japan are and how they can be overcome. We use … Public Choice arguments, but also analyze actual climate policy making in Japan on a case study basis. Thus, on the one hand …

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'By a Silken Thread': Regional Banking Integration and Pathways to Financial Development in Japan's Great Recession

Hoffmann, Mathias; Okubo, Toshihiro - CESifo - 2013

How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan’s Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures’ different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan’s opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …

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Economy Wide Impact of the Trade Integration between Japan and India: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Bhattacharyay, Biswa Nath; Mukhopadhyay, Kakali - CESifo - 2013

Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The …, the study evaluates the economy wide impact of the proposed CEPA between India and Japan at 2020. The study has used a … India and Japan in 2020 after tariff reduction compared to Business as Usual (BAU) scenario. A marginal export growth is …

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Exchange Rate Pass-Through in the Deflationary Japan: How Effective is the Yen’s Depreciation for Fighting Deflation?

Fujii, Eiji - CESifo - 2004

There is an increasing endorsement for the yen’s depreciation as a means to fight the ongoing deflation in Japan. The …

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