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The Ifo Investment Database
Strobel, Thomas; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013
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 … investments. We describe the structure and methodology of the database and illustrate its variety and strengths by looking at some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721990
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The German Local Population Database (GPOP), 1871 to 2019
Rösel, Felix - 2022
I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population … Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all … German municipalities, counties, and states at consistent contemporary boundaries (31 December 2019). The database was hand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013287977
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FamData: database for family business companies in Germany covering company key figures and survey data
Garnitz, Johanna; Maltzan, Annette von; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2023
FamData is a database covering family businesses and non-family businesses across various size classes and branches …,000 companies. In addition to the "hard" business data like turnover and number of employees, the database also includes "soft …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309600
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What do we really know about fiscal sustainability in the EU? : a panel data diagnostic
Afonso, António (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641707
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Asset price shocks, real expenditures, and financial structure : a multi-country analysis
Chirinko, Robert S. (contributor); Haan, Leo de (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines the responses of private consumption, residential investment, and business investment in 11 EU countries, Japan, and the United States to shocks in housing and equity prices. The effects are assessed with a Structural Vector Auto Regressive (SVAR) model, and four key findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730274
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On the bilateral trade effects of free trade agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763931
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Labour market institutions and their effect on labour market performance in the new EU member countries
Fialová, Kamila (contributor);  … - 2008
This article focuses on the role of labour market institutions in explaining different labour market developments in European countries, with a special attention to the new European Union member countries. This may allow us to analyse effects of various institutional setups and of their changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763951
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Economic, political and institutional determinants of budget deficits in the European Union
Bayar, Ali H.; Smeets, Bram - 2009
Using an extended data set of EU countries ranging from 1971-2006 and relevant econometric methods, we investigate the economic, political, and institutional determinants of government deficits in the EU. The results show a strong opportunistic behaviour of policymakers which leads to political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831961
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Voting in the European Union : Central Europe's lost voice
Schneider, Ondřej (contributor) - 2008
Ten Central European countries became members of the European Union in the years 2004 - 2007. They constitute 20% of the EU's total population; and even though their economic output is much lower, it rises dynamically. New members' impact on the EU policies has nevertheless been limited. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790698
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The political economy of two-tier reforms of employment protection in Europe
Ochel, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008
Reforms of employment protection (EPL) in Europe eased the recourse to temporary forms of employment while not reducing the strictness of EPL of permanent jobs (with the exception of Spain). Since 1990, such two-tier reforms have been implemented in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790764