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four major European economies (France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom). As opposed to the benchmark rational …
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Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and … the evolution of the monthly labour earnings distribution and individual economic well-being differently in West Germany … regards to West Germany, we show that the current policy of transforming paid overtime in "working time accountsʺ, which is …
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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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The paper analyses the recent supply side developments in France, Germany, and Italy by employing a non …
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We report results on the ex ante predictability of monthly excess stock returns in Germany using real-time and revised …
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used a new dataset on monthly real-time macroeconomic variables for Germany. The dataset covers the period 1994-2005. We …
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Modern trade theory emphasizes firm-level productivity differentials to explain the cross-border activities of non-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel dataset that contains all German banks’...
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groups and of different size. -- Market power-risk nexus ; international banking ; micro-data ; Germany …
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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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