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Does regional redistribution spur growth?
Koetter, Michael (contributor); Wedow, Michael (contributor) - 2008
After the German reunification, interregional subsidies accounted for approximately four percent of gross fixed capital investment in the new federal states. We show that between 1992 and 2005 infrastructure and (small) business aid had a negative net impact on regional economic growth. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794113
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Rapid demographic change and the allocation of public education resources : evidence from East Germany
Kempkes, Gerhard - 2010
Germany where birth rates collapsed after German reunification. Previous results from the literature based on data from more … resource adjustments in East Germany have been considerable, especially in the years when student cohorts actually decreased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008653396
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Dynamic Q-investment functions for Germany using panel balance sheet data and a new algorithm for the capital stock at replacement values
Behr, Andreas; Bellgardt, Egon - 2002
the majority in Germany. One of the key variables when using balance sheet data, which has attracted much detailed … börsennotierte Unternehmen, die in Deutschland eindeutig dominieren. Eine zentrale Größe der Analyse des Investitionsverhaltens auf …
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A Vectorautoregressive Investment Model (VIM) and monetary policy transmission : panel evidence from German firms
Breitung, Jörg; Chirinko, Robert S.; Kalckreuth, Ulf von - 2003
This paper proposes a new framework for studying the effects of monetary policy on business investment. Important ambiguities with the modeling of investment dynamics and interactions between real and financial decisions suggest modeling investment spending as a VAR. Based on a panel of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432001
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Determinants of German foreign direct investment in Latin American and Asian emerging markets in the 1990s
Wezel, Torsten - 2003
Many empirical studies in the area of foreign direct investment (FDI) exclusively focus on flows between industrialized countries. This article makes a contribution to the still relatively sparse literature on FDI in emerging markets by estimating determinants of German FDI flows to Latin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432086
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Sectoral differences in wage freezes and wage cuts : evidence from a new firm survey
Radowski, Daniel (contributor); Bonin, Holger (contributor) - 2008
services. -- nominal wage rigidity ; efficiency wages ; manufactoring and services ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770971
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Firm investment and monetary policy transmission in the Euro area
Kalckreuth, Ulf von; Hernando, Ignacio; Generale, Andrea; … - 2001
euro-area countries (Germany, France, Italy and Spain). With particularly rich micro datasets for each country containing … einzelwirtschaftlichen Investitionsverhaltens in den vier größten Ländern des Euro-Währungsraums (Deutschland, Frankreich, Italien und …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431058
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Rent indices for housing in West Germany 1985 to 1998
Hoffmann, Johannes; Kurz, Claudia - 2002
is some evidence of an understatement of rent inflation in the official rent index for West Germany at the beginning of … Qualitätsfortschritt weniger stark. Da aber die privaten Haushalte in Deutschland rund 10 % ihres Budgets für Mieten ausgeben, könnte …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431145
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Testing for competition among German banks
Hempell, Hannah S. - 2002
Given the marked reduction in the number of banks in Germany during recent years, the study estimates competitive … several size categories. However, despite the decrease in the number of banks in Germany during the investigated period and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431303
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The stable long-run CAPM and the cross-section of expected returns
Kurz-Kim, Jeong-Ryeol - 2002
The capital-asset-pricing model (CAPM) is one of the most popular methods of financial market analysis. But, evidence of the poor empirical performance of the CAPM has accumulated in the literature. For example, based on their empirical results regarding the relation between market Beta and...
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