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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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Great moderation at the firm level? : unconditional versus conditional output volatility

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); Döpke, Jörg (contributor); … - 2008

trends in unconditional firm level and aggregated output volatility in Germany are similar. There has been a long …

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FDI versus cross-border financial services : the globalisation of German banks

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Financial constraints and the margins of FDI

Buch, Claudia M.; Kesternich, Iris; Lipponer, Alexander; … - 2009

Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross-border expansion of firms. But firms may also need external finance to shoulder the costs of entering foreign markets. We develop a model of multinational firms facing real and...

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Margins of international banking : is there a productivity pecking order in banking, too?

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Koetter, Michael - 2009

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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Do banks benefit from internationalization? : Revisiting the market power-risk nexus

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Koetter, Michael - 2010

groups and of different size. -- Market power-risk nexus ; international banking ; micro-data ; Germany …

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Shocks at large banks and banking sector distress : the Banking Granular Residual

Blank, Sven; Buch, Claudia M.; Neugebauer, Katja - 2009

Size matters in banking. In this paper, we explore whether shocks originating at large banks affect the probability of distress of smaller banks and thus the stability of the banking system. Our analysis proceeds in two steps. In a first step, we follow Gabaix (2008a) and construct a measure of...

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Crises, rescues, and policy transmission through international banks

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Koetter, Michael - 2011

The World Financial Crisis has shaken the fundamentals of international banking and triggered a downward spiral of asset prices. To prevent a further meltdown of markets, governments have intervened massively through rescues measures aimed at recapitalizing banks and through liquidity support....

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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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