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Germany’s labor market problems : what to do and what not to do? ; a survey among experts

Profit, Stefan; Tschernig, Rolf - 1998

In this study we collect information on what economists would suggest for reducing German unemployment. This was done by conducting a detailed survey containing 35 measures at two conferences of different kind. One conference was a small conference at the Humboldt-University in Berlin attended...

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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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Higher order forward rate agreements and the smoothness of the term structure

Jaschke, Stefan R. - 1998

This paper proposes linear higher order conditions on the term structure that allow to compute valuation bounds for any deterministic cash stream. Starting from bounds on the forward rate curve and its derivatives, which are nonlinear in the discount factors, we derive linear conditions that are...

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Job stability trends and labor market (re-)entry in West Germany 1984 - 1997

Mertens, Antje - 1999

This paper investigates whether job stability in western Germany shows any signs of decline and compares the findings …

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Option pricing under linear autoregressive dynamics, heteroskedasticity, and conditional leptokurtosis

Hafner, Christian M.; Herwartz, Helmut - 1999

Daily returns of financial assets are frequently found to exhibit positive autocorrelation at lag 1. When specifying a linear AR(l) conditional mean, one may ask how this predictability affects option prices. We investigate the dependence of option prices on autoregressive dynamics under...

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Complementarity of labor market institutions, equilibrium unemployment and the persistence of business cycles

Burda, Michael C.; Weder, Mark - 1999

This paper evaluates complementarities of labor market institutions and the business cycle in the context of a stochastic dynamic general equililbriurn model econorny. Matching between workers and vacancies with endogenous search intensity, Nash-bargained wages, payroll taxation, and...

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Weekday dependence of German stock market returns

Herwartz, Helmut - 1999

The so-called 'Monday effect ' has been found for various stock markets of the world. The empirical finding that Monday returns are significantly smaller than returns measured for the remaining days of the week calls the efficiency hypothesis for pricing processes operating on stock markets into...

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The congruence of theoretical and empirical patterns of inter-store price competition

Klapper, Daniel; Cooper, Lee G.; Hildebrandt, Lutz - 1999

Research ; Game Theory ; Price Competition among Manufacturers and Retailers ; Empirical Industrial Organization …

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The market reaction to stock splits : evidence from Germany

Wulff, Christian - 1999

. Institutional differences between Germany and the U.S. allow to disentangle the three main hypotheses on the announcement effect …. Consistently, abnormal returns around the announcement day are much lower in Germany than in the U.S. Although a significant …

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Estimating wage losses of displaced workers in Germany

Burda, Michael C.; Mertens, Antje - 1999

This paper investigates the effect of displacement on reemployment wages of socially insured West German workers who became unemployed in 1986. Because detailed information on the cause of job loss is unavailable, displacement status is imputed using a probit estimated on the German...

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