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Information or regulation : what Is driving the international activities of commercial banks?
Buch, Claudia M. - 2000
Information costs and regulatory barriers are the main distinguishing features of international financial markets as compared to national financial markets. This paper presents a simple model of the impact of these factors on banks' cross-border activities and provides empirical evidence. Our...
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Distance and international banking
Buch, Claudia M. - 2001
bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and liabilities of commercial banks from five countries (France, Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474062
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Real and financial integration in Europe : evidence for the accession states and for the pre-ins
Buch, Claudia M.; Döpke, Jörg - 1999
-ins for monetary union with respect to Germany. Using tests for cointegration and common features for monthly data during the …
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Overtime Work, Overtime Compensation and the Distribution of Economic Well-Being: Evidence for West Germany and Great Britain
Pannenberg, Markus; Wagner, Gert G. - 2001
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 accounts?, which is …
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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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German Works Councils in the Production Process
Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2003
In a sharp break with past German research, some recent estimates have suggested that plants with work councils have 25 to 30 per cent higher productivity than their works-councilfree counterparts. Such findings can only serve to buttress the strong theoretical and policy interest in the German...
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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004
trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261930
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Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002
present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262131
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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?
Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2005
context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262197
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Works Councils - Sand or Grease in the Operation of German Firms?
Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002
Using a large panel data set we investigate whether works councils act as sand or grease in the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that establishments with and without a works council do not exhibit significant differences in efficiency.
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