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Finance, control, and profitability : the influence of German banks
Chirinko, Robert S.; Elston, Julie Ann Michelle - 2003
Bank intermediated finance has been cited frequently as the preferred means for channeling funds from savers to firms … assertions about the considerable power of German banks and the advantages of a bank relation, empirical support is mixed. With a … unique dataset and a focus on the fragility/sturdiness of inferences, this paper evaluates German bank influence in terms of …
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Dynamic R&D Choice and the Impact of the Firm's Financial Strength
Peters, Bettina - 2016
This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affects its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing industries. The model incorporates a measure of the firm's financial strength, derived from...
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Catching-Up to Foreign Technology? Evidence on the "Veblen-Gerschenkron" Effect of Foreign Investments
Peri, Giovanni - 2004
The presence of foreign multinational enterprises may benefit local economies. In particular, highly productive foreign-owned firms may promote technological catch-up of local firms. Such channel of spillovers is defined as "Veblen-Geschenkron" effect of Foreign Direct Investments and is...
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Equity price dynamics before and after the introduction of the euro : a note
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Westermann, Frank - 2001
Daily data from the German and U.S. equity markets before and after the introduction of the Euro are used to study the effect of exchange rate regime choices on equity markets. It is found that, since the introduction of the Euro, the volatility and the persistence of the German stock index have...
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Convergence of monetary transmission in EMU new evidence
Toolsema-Veldman, Linda Adriana; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; … - 2001
This paper examines how the pass-through of monetary policy measures in 6 EMU countries has evolved over time and whether there is convergence in monetary transmission. The countries included are: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, and the sample period is 1980-2000. We...
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Assessing the macroeconomic forecasting performance of boosting : evidence for the United States, the Euro Area, and Germany
Buchen, Teresa; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013
The use of large datasets for macroeconomic forecasting has received a great deal of interest recently. Boosting is one possible method of using high-dimensional data for this purpose. It is a stage-wise additive modelling procedure, which, in a linear specification, becomes a variable selection...
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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium : technical progress, globalization and European monetary union
Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage p olicy in Germany are revisited in this study: skilled-biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product markets, and the monetary integration of the EMU....
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MPC Heterogeneity in Europe : Sources and Policy Implications
Ampudia, Miguel - 2018
. The estimation of key parameters uses a simulated method of moments approach to match moments related to asset market … estimation are used to characterize the distributions of the marginal propensity to consume across households for each of the …
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The euro exchange rate and Germany's trade surplus
Hohberger, Stefan; Ratto, Marco; Vogel, Lukas - 2019
We estimate a three-region (DE-REA-RoW) structural macroeconomic model, and we provide a counterfactual on how nominal exchange rate flexibility would have affected the German trade balance (TB) by simulating the shocks of the estimated model under a counterfactual flexible exchange rate regime....
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The effects of monetary policy surprises and fiscal sustainability regimes in the Euro Area
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Ionta, Serena - 2023
We study the effect of monetary surprise shocks on real output and the price level, conditioned on different fiscal sustainability regimes in the period 2001Q4-2021Q4. First, we estimate time-varying fiscal sustainability coefficients based on Bohn's (1998) approach through Schlicht's (2003)...
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