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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668119
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002681975
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Great moderation at the firm level? : unconditional versus conditional output volatility
Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); Döpke, Jörg (contributor);  … - 2008
trends in unconditional firm level and aggregated output volatility in Germany are similar. There has been a long …
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Risk aversion and trade union membership
Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003651053
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FDI versus cross-border financial services : the globalisation of German banks
Buch, Claudia M. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Determinants for using visible reserves in German banks : an empirical study
Bornemann, Sven; Homölle, Susanne; Hubensack, Carsten; … - 2009
The German Commercial Code ("HGB") allows banks to build visible reserves for general banking risks according to section 340g HGB. These "GBR reserves" may, in addition to their risk provisioning function, be used to enhance capital endowment, for internal financing, signaling or earnings...
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Financial constraints and the margins of FDI
Buch, Claudia M.; Kesternich, Iris; Lipponer, Alexander; … - 2009
Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross-border expansion of firms. But firms may also need external finance to shoulder the costs of entering foreign markets. We develop a model of multinational firms facing real and...
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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’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003889133
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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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