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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 …

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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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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...

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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....

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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...

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Liberalization and regulation of international capital flows: where the opposites meet

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2001

The paper discusses the pros and cons of capital account liberalization. Rather than contrasting liberalization and regulation of capital flows as irreconcilable antagonisms, we argue that capital account liberalization requires institutional and regulatory safeguards. Even though the...

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Economic impact of climate change: simulations with a regionalized climate-economy model

Deke, Oliver; Hooss, Kurt Georg; Kasten, Christiane; … - 2001

Climate change affects the physical and biological system in many regions of the world. The extent to which human systems will suffer economically from climate change depends on the adaptive capabilities within a region as well as across regions. We use an economic General-Equilibrium model and...

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Europäische Geldpolitik: Expansionskurs beibehalten

Tober, Silke - In: DIW Wochenbericht 69 (2002) 12, pp. 205-210

Nachdem die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) nur verhalten auf den weltweiten synchronen Abschwung reagiert hat, sind mit der sich abzeichnenden Belebung der wirtschaftlichen Aktivität im Euroraum weitere Zinssenkungen unwahrscheinlich geworden. An den Finanzmärkten werden bereits...

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Geldpolitische Aspekte der Erweiterung des Euroraums

Lommatzsch, Kirsten; Tober, Silke - In: DIW Wochenbericht 69 (2002) 15, pp. 229-237

Dem Beitritt zur Europäischen Union (EU), den zahlreiche Länder anstreben, wird mit einiger Verzögerung die Einführung des Euro folgen. Schon jetzt stellen sich daher zwei grundsätzliche Fragen: Erstens, ist die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) auch dann mit den derzeit gegebenen...

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