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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998
social norms. We develop a theoretical frame-work which nests various social custom models. Using micro data for Germany and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668119
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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien
Wagner, Gert G.; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000
In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …
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Financial constraints and capacity adjustment in the United Kingdom - evidence from a large panel of survey data
Kalckreuth, Ulf von (contributor); Murphy, Emma (contributor) - 2004
The interrelationship between financial constraints and firm activity is a hotly debated issue. The way firms cope with financial constraints is fundamental to the analysis of monetary transmission, of financial stability and of growth and development. The CBI Industrial Trends Survey contains...
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Risk aversion and trade union membership
Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2008
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The coordination channel of foreign exchange intervention : a nonlinear microstructural analysis
Reitz, Stefan (contributor); Taylor, Markt P. (contributor) - 2006
The coordination channel has been proposed as a means by which foreign exchange market intervention may be effective, in addition to the traditional portfolio balance and signaling channels. If strong and persistent misalignments of the exchange rate are caused by non-fundamental influences,...
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Margins of international banking : is there a productivity pecking order in banking, too?
Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Koetter, Michael - 2009
Modern trade theory emphasizes firm-level productivity differentials to explain the cross-border activities of non-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel dataset that contains all German banks’...
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Gender differences in entrepreneurial choice and risk aversion : a decomposition based on a microeconometric model
Fossen, Frank M. - 2009
in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003889522
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Income diversification in the German banking industry
Busch, Ramona; Kick, Thomas - 2009
In the last few years it has been possible to observe decreasing interest margins for German universal banks. At the same time, institutions increasingly moved part of their business from interest to fee-earning activities. This study analyzes the determinants of non-interest income and its...
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GEE estimation of a two-equation panel data model : an analysis of wage dynamics and the incidence of profit-sharing in West Germany
Pannenberg, Markus (contributor); Spieß, Martin (contributor) - 2007
jointly analyze wage dynamics and the incidence of profit-sharing in West Germany. Our findings reveal a significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003411717
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Slippery slopes of stress : ordered failure events in German banking
Kick, Thomas (contributor); Koetter, Michael (contributor) - 2007
Outright bank failures without prior indication of financial instability are very rare. Supervisory authorities monitor banks constantly. Thus, they usually obtain early warning signals that precede ultimate failure and, in fact, banks can be regarded as troubled to varying degrees before...
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