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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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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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The relationship between healthcare expenditure and disposable personal income in the US states : a fractional integration and cointegration analysis

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Cuñado Eizaguirre, Juncal; … - 2015

This study examines the relationship between healthcare expenditure and disposable income in the 50 US states over the period 1966-2009 using fractional integration and cointegration techniques. The degree of integration and nonlinearity of both series are found to vary considerably across...

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Linkages between the US and European stock markets : a fractional cointegration approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; … - 2015

This paper analyses the long-memory properties of US and European stock indices, as well as their linkages, using fractional integration and fractional cointegration techniques. These methods are more general and have higher power than the standard ones usually employed in the literature. The...

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On the persistence of UK inflation : a long-range dependence approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Trani, … - 2018

This paper examines the degree of persistence in UK inflation by applying long-memory methods to historical data that span the period from 1660 to 2016. Specifically, we use both parametric and non-parametric fractional integration techniques, that are more general than those based on the...

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Central bank policy rates : are they cointegrated?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Carcel, Hector; Gil-Alaña, … - 2017

This paper analyses the stochastic properties of and the bilateral linkages between the central bank policy rates of the US, the Eurozone, Australia, Canada, Japan and the UK using fractional integration and cointegration techniques respectively. The univariate analysis suggests a high degree of...

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Risk aversion and trade union membership

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

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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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