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FDI versus cross-border financial services: The globalisation of German banks

Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 2004

The choice between foreign direct investment (FDI) and exports has been a recurrent theme in the literature on international trade, yet few studies have analysed this choice at the level of the individual firm. This paper uses a new dataset to study the FDI-versus-exports decision for banks. We...

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Consumption Smoothing Across States and Time: International Insurance vs. Foreign Loans

von Furstenberg, George M. - 2004

When countries, and macroeconomic models, open up to international capital markets, the welfare gains available through completion of financial markets for contingencies potentially are much greater than those available from access to noncontingent international borrowing. Intercasual insurance,...

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International diversification at home and abroad

Cai, Fang; Warnock, Francis E. - 2005

We analyze foreigners' and domestic institutional investors' positions in U.S. equities. Controlling for many factors, we uncover a common preference for large firms and firms that are diversified internationally. The domestic preference for internationally diversified firms implies that...

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Multinational enterprises international trade, and productivity growth: Firm-level evidence from the United States

Keller, Wolfgang; Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2005

We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) between the years of 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to substantial productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI...

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Business cycles and FDI: evidence from German sectoral data

Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 2005

Globalization has effected business cycle developments in OECD countries and has increased activities of firms across national borders. This paper analyzes whether these two developments are linked. We use a new firm-level dataset on the foreign activities of German firms to test whether foreign...

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Firm-level evidence on international stock market comovement

Brooks, Robin; Del Negro, Marco - 2005

We explore the link between international stock market comovement and the degree to which firms operate globally. Using stock returns and balance sheet data for companies in 20 countries, we estimate a factor model that decomposes stock returns into global, country-specific and industry-specific...

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How safe was the "safe haven"? Financial market liquidity during the 1998 turbulences

Upper, Christian - 2000

investiert, die als besonders risikoarm und hochliquide angesehen wurden. Einer dieser 'sicheren Häfen' war der Markt für … hindeutet. Trotzdem war der Markt in der Lage, ein statistisch signifikant höhere Anzahl von Transaktionen und Volumina zu … handeln. In diesem Sinne war die Bereitstellung von Marktliquidität während der Turbulenzen außergewöhnlich effektiv. Das …

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Budgetary Policy and Unemployment Dynamics

von Thadden, Leopold; Kaas, Leo - 2001

We consider a dynamic general equilibrium model with collective wage bargaining and investigate how unemployment dynamics are affected by two types of budgetary policies. In line with traditional reasoning, a balanced-budget rule amplifies fluctuations in the short run, whereas an...

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The information content of survey data on expected price developments for monetary policy

Gerberding, Christina - 2001

The present paper uses survey data on expected consumer price developments to analyse the role of inflation expectations in the inflation process. The survey measures of price expectations are derived from the European Commission's Consumer Survey and from the surveys of professional experts...

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Long-Run Links Among Money, Prices, and Output: World-Wide Evidence

Reimers, Hans-Eggert; Herwartz, Helmut - 2001

Regarding inflation as being a monetary phenomenon in the long-run is a widely-held view in modern macro economics. We analyse this topic by means of a P-star model. Based on the quantity theory of money, this approach explains inflation via a supposed equilibrium price level (P-star), which...

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