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Bank Competition and Firm Growth in the Enlarged European Union

Pellényi, Gábor; Borkó, Tamás - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

We examine the impact of bank competition and institutional factors on net firm entry in a sample of European … find that bank competition helps firm entry. In addition, better institutions - especially legal structure and property …

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Bank Competition and Firm Growth in the Enlarged European Union

Pellényi, Gábor; Borkó, Tamás - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

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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 … the overall program's success: a strategy of building up several competing banking units targeted at MSE lending or a …

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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes: Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies

Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power …

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Reducing Binge Drinking? The Effect of a Ban on Late-Night Off-premise Alcohol Sales on Alcohol-Related Hospital Stays in Germany

Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

Excessive alcohol consumption among young people is a major public health concern. On March 1, 2010, the German state of Baden-Württemberg banned the sale of alcoholic beverages between 10pm and 5am at off-premise outlets (e.g., gas stations, kiosks, supermarkets). We use rich monthly...

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Rates of Return and Early Retirement Disincentives: Evidence from a German Pension Reform

Lüthen, Holger - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

To counteract the financial pressure emerging in aging societies, statutory pay-as-you-go pension schemes are undergoing fundamental reforms in many Western countries. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the...

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Moving up a Gear: The Impact of Compressing Instructional Time into Fewer Years of Schooling

Huebener, Mathias; Marcus, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

Policy-makers face a trade-off between the provision of higher levels of schooling and earlier labour market entries. A fundamental education reform in Germany tackles this trade-off by reducing high school by one year while leaving the total instructional time unchanged. Employing...

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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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Volatility Patterns of CDS, Bond and Stock Markets before and during the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Major Financial Institutions

Belke, Ansgar; Gokus, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This study is motivated by the development of credit-related instruments and signals of stock price movements of large … clustering. But very few studies dealing with credit default swaps account for the characteristics of the variances. Our aim is … known shortcomings of credit ratings, the demand for market-based indicators has risen as they can help to assess the …

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Does Gender Affect Investors' Appetite for Risk?: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending

Barasinska, Nataliya - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

the largest German market for peer-to-peer lending. Investors' utility is assumed to be a function of the projects …

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