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In this paper, we assess the impact of major German structural reforms from 1999 to 2008 on key macroeconomic variables. By many, these reforms, especially the Hartz reforms on the labor market, are considered to be the root of observed imbalances in the Euro Area. Our simulations within a...
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This study provides new stylized facts on the determinants of corporate failure and acquisition in Germany. It also offers important lessons for the design of empirical studies. We show that firms experiencing failure or acquisition are significantly different from surviving firms on a number of...
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This study investigates the determinants of changes in corporate ownership and firm failure, taking into account different types of sellers and buyers of control blocks. For a large panel of German corporations we find that firms are more likely to fail or to be sold when performance is poor,...
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of the Federal Institute of Labour and the Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (lAB). The result is that there …
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impact on liquidity conditions as measured by bid-ask spreads and inter-dealer order book depth. We further show that the …
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Purchase Programme (CSPP). Did these purchases lead to a deterioration of liquidity conditions in the corporate bond market … Bundesbank's detailed CSPP purchase records with a range of liquidity indicators for both purchased and nonpurchased bonds. We … find that while the flow of purchases supported secondary market liquidity, liquidity conditions deteriorated in the long …
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German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper analysis of ordoliberal thinking reveals that the...
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