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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998

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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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A Vectorautoregressive Investment Model (VIM) and Monetary Policy Transmission: Panel Evidence from German Firms

von Kalckreuth, Ulf; Chirinko, Robert S.; Breitung, Jörg - 2003

This paper proposes a new framework for studying the effects of monetary policy on business investment. Important ambiguities with the modeling of investment dynamics and interactions between real and financial decisions suggest modeling investment spending as a VAR. Based on a panel of...

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Unit Labor Cost Growth Differentials in the Euro Area, Germany, and the US: Lessons from PANIC and Cluster Analysis

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir N. - 2007

Inflation differentials in the Euro area are mainly due to a sustained divergence of wage developments across the Euro area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of inflation using unit labour cost (ULC) growth and applying...

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Clustering or competition? The foreign investment behaviour of German banks

Lipponer, Alexander; Buch, Claudia M. - 2004

The presence of other firms in a foreign market can have a double-edged effect on the profitability of new entrants. Firstly, a larger presence of other firms implies more competition and thus lowers the earnings prospects of new entrants. Secondly, there might be positive spill-over effects...

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Business Cycle Transmission from the US to Germany: a Structural Factor Approach

Eickmeier, Sandra - 2004

This paper investigates the transmission of US macroeconomic shocks to Germany by employing a large … shocks affect the US and Germany largely symmetrically. Trade and monetary policy reactions to strong price effects seem to …

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Financial constraints for investors and the speed of adaptation: Are innovators special?

von Kalckreuth, Ulf - 2004

This paper uses a large panel of survey data on German firms in the manufacturing sector to analyse the effects of financing constraints for investors in general and for innovative firms in particular. Survey data with information on financing conditions are potentially a valuable tool that...

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Business cycles and FDI: evidence from German sectoral data

Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 2005

Globalization has effected business cycle developments in OECD countries and has increased activities of firms across national borders. This paper analyzes whether these two developments are linked. We use a new firm-level dataset on the foreign activities of German firms to test whether foreign...

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Exploring the role of uncertainty for corporate investment decisions in Germany

von Kalckreuth, Ulf - 2000

The impact of uncertainty on firms' investment outlays is subject to an ongoing debate. Theory identifies several channels. Irreversibility, financing constraints and risk aversion make a negative relationship between uncertainty and investment likely. On the other hand, the ability of firms to...

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Monetary transmission in Germany: New Perspectives on Financial Constraints and Investment Spending

von Kalckreuth, Ulf - 2001

Kreditkanals für die Anlageinvestitionen des Verarbeitenden Gewerbes in Deutschland untersucht. Unser Panel von Jahresabschlüssen …

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