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Information or regulation: what is driving the international activities of commercial banks?
Buch, Claudia M. - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013261112
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Distance and international banking
Buch, Claudia M. - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013261139
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Real and financial integration in Europe : evidence for the accession states and for the pre-ins
Buch, Claudia M. - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013261029
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Ready to leave the ivory tower? : academic scientists´ appeal to work in the private sector
Fritsch, Michael; Krabel, Stefan - 2009
In this study we investigate the factors that shape the attitudes of scientists toward starting their own business or working in a private sector firm. The analysis is based on data collected from scientists working in the German Max Planck Society, a research institution devoted to basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887176
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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’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003889133
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008667402
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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits' - the Big Five - on an individua's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of self-employment varies considerably across professions, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688983
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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487807
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Determinants of German FDI : new evidence from micro-data
Toubal, Farid; Kleinert, Jörn; Buch, Claudia M. - 2003
This paper provides new evidence on the foreign direct investment stocks of German firms. We use firm-level data for the years 1990-2000 to describe the regional and sectoral patterns of German FDI through gravity-type equations. We provide evidence on the patterns of FDI by sector, by size of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432062
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Business cycles, unemployment and entrepreneurial entry : first evidence from Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2013
Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively influenced by unemployment rates and that the cyclical component of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723596