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Financial constraints for investors and the speed of adaptation : are innovators special?

Kalckreuth, Ulf von (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Does lowering dividend tax rates increase dividends repatriated? : evidence of intra-firm cross-border dividend repatriation policies by German Multinational Enterprises

Leibrecht, Markus; Bellak, Christian; Wild, Michael - 2009

This paper explores the impact dividend taxes exert on the dividends repatriated from foreign affiliates to their German parent company. Based on an augmented Lintner model of firms' dividend payout decisions, the paper focusses on cross-border intra-firm dividend payments of wholly-owned...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870801

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871368

The effects of knowledge management on innovative success : an empirical analysis of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857677

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’...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003889133

Stochastic frontier analysis by means of maximum likelihood and the method of moments

Behr, Andreas (contributor); Tente, Sebastian (contributor) - 2008

also discussed in relevant literature. The natural estimation method seems to be Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimation because … estimation approaches for both the half-normal and the exponential approach to inefficiency. Based on the simulation results we … obtain decision rules for the choice of the superior estimation approach. Both estimation methods, ML and MOM, are applied to …

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What macroeconomic shocks affect the German banking system? : analysis in an integrated micro-macro model

Blank, Sven; Dovern, Jonas - 2009

We analyze what macroeconomic shocks affect the soundness of the German banking system and how this, in turn, feeds back into the macroeconomic environment. Recent turmoils on the international financial markets have shown very clearly that assessing the degree to which banks are vulnerable to...

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Do banks benefit from internationalization? : Revisiting the market power-risk nexus

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Koetter, Michael - 2010

groups and of different size. -- Market power-risk nexus ; international banking ; micro-data ; Germany …

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How useful is the carry-over effect for short-term economic forecasting?

Tödter, Karl-Heinz - 2010

The carry-over effect is the advance contribution of the old year to growth in the new year. Among practitioners the informative content of the carry-over effect for short-term forecasting is undisputed and is used routinely in economic forecasting. In this paper, the carry-over effect is...

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User costs of housing when households face a credit constraint : evidence for Germany

Dümmler, Tobias; Kienle, Stephan - 2010

We develop a formula for user costs of housing on the basis of a neoclassical approach to housing investment which does not impose a perfect capital market assumption. We suggest that the definition for the user costs of housing should be extended by an additional term which mirrors the credit...

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