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Causes and consequences of merger waves
Kleinert, Jörn; Klodt, Henning - 2002
This paper presents some ideas about determinants of merger waves and some evidence on their effect on profitability … and employment. A brief survey of previous merger waves and an analysis of the recent one give support to the hypothesis … that sectoral shocks are at the root of merger waves. Deregulation and globalization are identified as the shocks …
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Cross-Border Bank Mergers: What Lures the Rare Animal?
DeLong, Gayle L.; Buch, Claudia M. - 2001
which information costs and regulations hold back merger activity. Our results suggest that banks operating in more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260608
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Wie kann der Abbau wirtschaftlicher Ungleichgewichte im Euroraum gelingen?: Kommentar
Dreger, Christian - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 43, pp. 12
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The European Union in the era of globalisation: Competitive challenges, structural unemployment, and policy responses
Gundlach, Erich; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283012
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Regionale Konjunkturunterschiede kein Hinderungsgrund für Geldpolitik im Euroraum
Artis, Michael; Dreger, Christian; Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 46, pp. 806-809
USA - prüfen. Es zeigt sich, dass die Unterschiede in der konjunkturellen Entwicklung zwischen den Regionen der Eurozone … nicht größer sind als zwischen den Bundesstaaten der USA. Somit sind die Erfolgsaussichten der Geldpolitik im Euroraum … keineswegs schlechter als in den USA. …
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TAFTA - a dead horse or an attractive open club?
Siebert, Horst - 2005
A Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA) has been proposed in the mid-1990s to revitalize the economic and political ties between the United States and the European Union. This paper discusses the expected economic gains from such a free trade area for its members with respect to trade in goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273144
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Estimating the shape of economic crises under heterogeneity
Dovern, Jonas; Jannsen, Nils - 2009
During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265233
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Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do!
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010
It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277984
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Macroeconomic constraints on economic development and poverty reduction: the case of Bolivia
Schweickert, Rainer - 2001
Bolivia's macroeconomic performance in the period 1994 to 1998 is analyzed and compared with the performance in former periods and the performance of other developing countries (grouped according to income, region, and debt status). This allows to assess what has been achieved in Bolivia since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332954
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Fortschritte beim Aufbau Ost: Fortschrittsbericht über die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in Ostdeutschland
Brenke, Karl; Eickelpasch, Alexander; Vesper, Dieter - In: DIW Wochenbericht 69 (2002) 25, pp. 393-416
Dieser Bericht wurde erarbeitet von folgenden wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschungsinstituten: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg, Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel, Institut für...
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