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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998

social norms. We develop a theoretical frame-work which nests various social custom models. Using micro data for Germany and …

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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien

Wagner, Gert G.; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000

In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …

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Distance and international banking

Buch, Claudia M. - 2001

bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and liabilities of commercial banks from five countries (France, Germany …

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Real and financial integration in Europe : evidence for the accession states and for the pre-ins

Buch, Claudia M.; Döpke, Jörg - 1999

-ins for monetary union with respect to Germany. Using tests for cointegration and common features for monthly data during the …

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Information or regulation : what Is driving the international activities of commercial banks?

Buch, Claudia M. - 2000

Information costs and regulatory barriers are the main distinguishing features of international financial markets as compared to national financial markets. This paper presents a simple model of the impact of these factors on banks' cross-border activities and provides empirical evidence. Our...

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Financial constraints and capacity adjustment in the United Kingdom - evidence from a large panel of survey data

Kalckreuth, Ulf von (contributor); Murphy, Emma (contributor) - 2004

The interrelationship between financial constraints and firm activity is a hotly debated issue. The way firms cope with financial constraints is fundamental to the analysis of monetary transmission, of financial stability and of growth and development. The CBI Industrial Trends Survey contains...

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Risk aversion and trade union membership

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2008

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The coordination channel of foreign exchange intervention : a nonlinear microstructural analysis

Reitz, Stefan (contributor); Taylor, Markt P. (contributor) - 2006

The coordination channel has been proposed as a means by which foreign exchange market intervention may be effective, in addition to the traditional portfolio balance and signaling channels. If strong and persistent misalignments of the exchange rate are caused by non-fundamental influences,...

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Margins of international banking : is there a productivity pecking order in banking, too?

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Koetter, Michael - 2009

Modern trade theory emphasizes firm-level productivity differentials to explain the cross-border activities of non-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel dataset that contains all German banks’...

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Income diversification in the German banking industry

Busch, Ramona; Kick, Thomas - 2009

In the last few years it has been possible to observe decreasing interest margins for German universal banks. At the same time, institutions increasingly moved part of their business from interest to fee-earning activities. This study analyzes the determinants of non-interest income and its...

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