bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and liabilities of commercial banks from five countries (France, Germany …

-ins for monetary union with respect to Germany. Using tests for cointegration and common features for monthly data during the …

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 …

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to … council ; Germany …

-static reservation wages using panel data from Germany from 1987 to 1998. The results suggest that reservation wages are relatively high … in Germany compared to other countries. Furthermore, pooled regression results show that most recent wages and personal …

This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in Germany from 1987 to 1998 …

structural breaks in the dynamics and the volatility of the real output process in Germany can be detected. We report evidence … that output volatility has declined in Germany. Yet, this decline in output volatility is not as clear-cut as it is in the … in Germany reflects good economic and monetary policy or merely "good luck". …