In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in … allows allocating investments by asset type to each industry, using an investment flow matrix. The database enables … researchers to analyze structural investment behavior on the industry level and to identify changes in the importance of in-vestment …

. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …

attractive investment, with bigger effects for individuals who regularly discuss such investments with their friends. Based on … housing investment decisions and aggregate housing market outcomes. Our approach exploits plausibly-exogenous variation in the …

manager power hypothesis for Germany as executives tend to be rewarded when the sector is doing well rather than the firm they …The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile … unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms in Germany in the period 1977-2009 we test two prominent hypothesis in …

voting power indices, is proposed, and the different measures are compared using a sample of large listed German firms. The …

answers and can be used to estimate market power and pass through rates. I show that even a naive one-sided model that ignores …

-enhancing investment in relationship-specific assets by signalling creditworthiness and long-term planning horizon of their borrowers. We … empirically confirm this hypothesis by showing that industries dependent on relationship-specific investment from their suppliers …-specific investment ; growth …