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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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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 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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How safe was the "safe haven"? Financial market liquidity during the 1998 turbulences

Upper, Christian - 2000

bonds in Germany. This feature is particularly attractive for the bond market, where OTC transactions account for most … Transaktion dieser vier Anleihen in Deutschland umfasst. Dies ist besonders für Arbeiten über den Rentenmarkt von großem Interesse …

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Estimating Bilateral Exposures in the German Interbank Market: Is there a Danger of Contagion?

Upper, Christian; Worms, Andreas - 2002

Credit risk associated with interbank lending may lead to domino effects, where the failure of one bank results in the failure of other banks not directly affected by the initial shock. Recent work in economic theory shows that this risk of contagion depends on the precise pattern of interbank...

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Tail Wags Dog? Time-Varying Information Shares in the Bund Market

Upper, Christian; Werner, Thomas - 2002

The flow of information between futures and spot prices may vary over time, in particular during periods of stress. This article analyses the information content of the Bund Future and German government bonds during 1998 and test whether it is constant over time. The use of high-frequency data...

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Time Variation in the Tail Behaviour of Bund Futures Returns

Upper, Christian; Werner, Thomas - 2002

The literature on the tail behaviour of asset prices focuses mainly on the foreign exchange and stock markets, with only a few papers dealing with bonds or bond futures. The present paper addresses this omission. We focus on three questions: (i) Are heavy tails a relevant feature of the...

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Determinants of German FDI: New Evidence from Micro-Data

Toubal, Farid; Kleinert, Jörn; Buch, Claudia M. - 2003

This paper provides new evidence on the foreign direct investment stocks of German firms. We use firm-level data for the years 1990-2000 to describe the regional and sectoral patterns of German FDI through gravity-type equations. We provide evidence on the patterns of FDI by sector, by size of...

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