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This paper proposes a new framework for studying the effects of monetary policy on business investment. Important ambiguities with the modeling of investment dynamics and interactions between real and financial decisions suggest modeling investment spending as a VAR. Based on a panel of...
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In 2012, almost five million people, or roughly 10 percent of the labor force in Germany, worked from home most or some … then. Yet overall employment in Germany has increased, as has the percentage of employees working from home in the European … Union as a whole. Compared with other EU countries, Germany is somewhat below average when it comes to home working; in …
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We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price data from the German Consumer Price Index which covers the years 1998 to 2003. We strong find evidence of time- and state-dependent price adjustment. Most importantly, the...
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exchange rate pass-through and pricing-to-market for export pricing in Germany to shift since the 1990s is addressed by testing …
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shifts in the importance of cost passthrough and pricing-to-market for import pricing in Germany that may have ocurred since …
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decision to cooperate with foreign partners. Some differences remain, however: In Germany, exporters are more likely to …
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This paper examines the consequences of using "real-time" data for business cycle analysis in Germany based on a novel …
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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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We identify investor moral hazard in the German fiscal federation. Our identification strategy is based on a variable, which was used by the German Federal Constitutional Court as an indicator to determine eligibility of two German states (Länder) to a bail-out, the interest payments-to-revenue...
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, using a new and large employer survey on wage and price setting behaviour for Germany. We observe that wage freezes are more …
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