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Effekte einer Arbeitszeitverkürzung: empirische Evidenz für Frankreich
Logeay, Camille; Schreiber, Sven - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
In diesem Papier wird an Hand eines Vektorfehlerkorrekturmodells (VECM) für den französischen Arbeitsmarkt untersucht, wie sich die dort Anfang 2000 eingeführte Verkürzung der Regelarbeitszeit in Verbindung mit Subventionen der Sozialversicherungsbeiträge ausgewirkt hat. Theoretisch sind...
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Capital Accumulation, Labour Market Institutions, and Unemployment in the Medium Run
Stockhammer, Engelbert; Klär, Erik - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
According to the mainstream view, labour market institutions (LMI) are the key determinants of unemployment in the … insufficient capital accumulation responsible for unemployment (Arestis et al 2007). Empirical work in this tradition has paid … capital accumulation as a macroeconomic shock. In the empirical analysis, medium-term unemployment is explained by capital …
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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting
Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …
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The New Keynesian Model and the Long-Run Vertical Phillips Curve: Does It Hold for Germany?
Gottschalk, Jan; Fritsche, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
New-Keynesian macroeconomic models typically assume that any long-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment is … rate, unemployment and inflation in West Germany from the early 1960s up to 2004 using a multivariate co … data a strong negative correlation between the trend components of inflation and unemployment. We show that this finding …
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Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Bank Lending: The Case of Ukraine
Talavera, Oleksandr; Tsapin, Andriy; Zholud, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
Our study investigates the link between bank lending behavior and macroeconomic uncertainty. We develop a dynamic model of a bank's value maximization that results in a negative relationship between loan to capital ratio and macroeconomic uncertainty. This proposition is tested using a panel of...
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Banking Competition, Good or Bad?: The Case of Promoting Micro and Small Enterprise Finance in Kazakhstan
Schäfer, Dorothea; Siliverstovs, Boriss; Terberger, Eva - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
Competition is claimed to be beneficial in development projects promoting micro and small enterprise finance although there are still some doubts whether these loans can be developed into a profitable business. Actually nothing is known about how many MSE banking units optimally should be...
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How Do Insured Deposits Affect Bank Risk?: Evidence from the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act
Lambert, Claudia; Noth, Felix; Schüwer, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
This paper tests whether an increase in insured deposits causes banks to become more risky. We use variation introduced by the U.S. Emergency Economic Stabilization Act in October 2008, which increased the deposit insurance coverage from $100,000 to $250,000 per depositor and bank. For some...
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Loan Loss Provision: Some Empirical Evidence for Italian Banks
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Alessi, Matteo; Colli, Stefano Di - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
This paper uses data from a panel of more than 400 Italian banks for the period 2001 – 2012 to examine the main determinants of loan loss provision (LLP), which are classified as either discretionary (income smoothing, capital management,signalling) or non-discretionary (related to the...
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Has Stock Markets' Reaction to Terrorist Attacks Changed throughout Time?: Comparative Evidence from a Large and a Small Capitalisation Market
Kollias, Christos; Manou, Efthalia; Papadamou, Stephanos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
An expanding body of literature has addressed the question of the economic impact terrorist attacks have. A part of this literature has focused on the impact recent major terrorist hits had on financial markets. The question addressed by this paper is to what extent markets' reaction to major...
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Evaluating Greek Equity Funds Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Babalos, Vassilios; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
This study assesses the relative performance of Greek equity funds employing a non-parametric method, specifically Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Using an original sample of cost and operational attributes we explore the effect of each variable on funds' operational efficiency for an...
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