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Finance, investment, and firm value in Germany and the US : a comparative analysis

Nowak, Eric - 1998

Germany and the United States are generally seen as the two competing systems of corporate governance. In search for a comparative welfare analysis of the financial systems, we are interested in (i) the aggregate value-added of corporate investments in the two countries and in (ii) the...

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The response of long-term interest rates to news about monetary policy actions : empirical evidence for the US and Germany

Nautz, Dieter; Wolters, Jürgen - 1998

We reexamine the expectations theory of the term structure focusing on the question how monetary policy actions … tests of expectations theory this implication only requires rational expectations but not stationary risk premia. Therefore …, its empirical test sheds new light on the importance of expectations theory for the determinants of the term structure of …

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A psychological approach to individual differences in intertemporal consumption patterns

Brandstätter, Hermann; Güth, Werner - 1998

When people decide about saving and consumption across the various periods of their life time they take into account their life expectancy when comparing present and future needs and resources for satisfying them. The experimental design, applied at two sites (Humboldt-University at Berlin and...

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Forecasting performance of market share attraction models : a comparison of different models assuming that competitors’ actions are forecasts

Klapper, Daniel; Herwartz, Helmut - 1998

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Testing for short and long-run causality : the case of the yield spread and economic growth

Breitung, Jörg; Candelon, Bertrand - 2001

To assess the predictive content of the interest rate term spread for future economic growth, we distinguish short-run from long-run predictability by using two different approaches. First, following Dufour and Renault (1998) a test procedure is proposed to test for causality at different...

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Money and banks : some theory and empirical evidence for Germany

Holtemöller, Oliver - 2002

. -- monetary policy ; Endogenous money ; industrial organization approach to banking theory ; money multiplier ; vector error …

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Intuitive optimizing for time allocation decisions in newly formed ventures

Lévesque, Moren; Schade, Christian D. - 2002

This article investigates whether decision makers intuitively optimize close to the normative prediction in … entrepreneurial decision situations where their time must be allocated between a wage job and a newly formed venture. We offer an … with systematic deviations that are consistent with well-known decision anomalies. Risk propensity is found to have an …

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Real estate valuation according to standardized methods : an empirical analysis

Schulz, Rainer - 2002

Appraisals are needed for decision-making and for performance evaluation. Knowledge on the accuracy of valuation …

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E-privacy : evaluating a new search cost in online environments

Annacker, Dirk; Spiekermann, Sarah; Strobel, Martin - 2001

Electronic Commerce environments increasingly witness a conflict on the subject of e-privacy: While marketers want to maximize their customer knowledge and grasp the identity of their online users, consumers often want to stay anonymous and not reveal private information. The conflict suggests...

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Multivariate volatility models

Fengler, Matthias R.; Herwartz, Helmut - 2001

Multivariate Volatility Models belong to the class of nonlinear models for financial data. Here we want to focus on multivariate GARCH models. These models assume that the variance of the innovation distribution follows a time dependent process conditional on information which is generated by...

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