creditors play an active role in disciplining. Block purchases have a monitoring role in Belgium and Germany, but not in France …-executive directors. Board restructuring is correlated to poor performance, but not for France. Neither existing blockholders nor …

This paper re-visits the state of decentralised banking in Germany, Spain and the UK. The cross-country comparison we … Germany. Our comparison has identified three factors of success contributing to the persistence of decentralised banking: I … conducted has identified Germany as having the most decentralised banking system, followed by Spain and the UK, as expected. The …

. The aim was to collect comparable data across European countries (the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria and …, Deutschland, Frankreich, Belgien, Österreich und Schweden), welche sich in Bezug auf Regelungen im Bereich der Integration sowie … double-comparative design which looks at two immigrant groups (Turks and Moroccans) and a comparison group of natives from …

financial performance in Britain and France. We find that union bargaining is detrimental to workplace performance in Britain … and that this effect is larger when unionization is endogenized. In France, union bargaining is associated with poorer … density do have a negative impact on workplace performance in France. In Britain the union effect does not rise with union …

I study possible determinants of part-time employment among women in France and Germany using microdata of the Labour … Force Survey. Voluntary part-time work is substantially more widespread among women in Germany than it is in France … working part time in Germany exceeds that in France among married women and among women with children, while there is hardly …