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Transparency in the Interbank Market and the Volume of Bank Intermediated Loans

Broll, Udo; Eckwert, Bernhard - 2004

In this paper we study the impact of more transparency in the interbank market on the volume of bank intermediated loans and on the profitability of the banking business. Transparency is modeled by means of the informational content of publicly observable signals correlated to the random...

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Domestic labor, foreign capital and national welfare

Broll, Udo; Hansen, Sabine; Marjit, Sugata - 2004

The competitive allocation of labor across different sectors of an economy may not be socially optimal when one sector uses foreign capital. We argue that a suitably designed government intervention is required to restrict the sectors to their optimal size and maximize national welfare. Such a...

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Dynamic Hedging of Real Wealth Risk

Schubert, Stefan; Broll, Udo - 2005

International and national investors are often exposed to real wealth risks, stemming from volatile asset prices and inflation uncertainty, making it difficult to stabilize consumption patterns. However, investors can enter futures markets to hedge against these risks. The paper develops a...

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Optimale Fakturierung im Außenhandel

Fuchs, Frank; Broll, Udo; Wahl, Jack E. - 2006

Bei Unsicherheit über die zukünftige Entwicklung des Wechselkurses sind international tätige Unternehmen nicht indifferent in Bezug auf die Wahl der Währung ihrer Preissetzung. Denn die bei der Fakturierung festgelegte Währung kann die Ertragssituation des Unternehmens erheblich...

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Can Immigrant Employment Alleviate the Demographic Burden? The Role of Union Centralization

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2006

We examine how labor immigration affects public pensions under centralized wage setting. We show that immigration improves the sustainability of pay-as-you-go pensions if and only if total employment declines. This occurs if the labor demand elasticity exceeds the unemployment rate.

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University Funding Reform, Competition and Teaching Quality

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2007

This paper explores the impact of university funding reform on teaching quality competition. It shows that a graduate tax with differentiated, but state-regulated fees maximises the higher education surplus, whereas student grants as well as pure and income contingent loans do not. Fee autonomy...

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Differential Taxation and Corporate Futures-Hedging

Wahl, Jack E.; Broll, Udo - 2007

Using a two-moment decision model this paper analyzes corporate hedging behavior in the presence of unified and differential income taxation. We start with the well-known result that risk-taking may increase when income tax rates increase and, therefore, the incentive for hedging reduces. We...

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The New Basel Accord and the Nature of Risk: A Game Theoretic Perspective

Siebe, Wilfried; Milde, Hellmuth; Broll, Udo; Bieta, Volker - 2007

– game theory is a useful set of tools for better understanding different risk settings. Embedded in a short history of the … Basel Accord in this article we introduce some basic ideas of game theory in the context of rating procedures in accordance … with Basel II. As well, some insight is given how game theory works. Here, the primary value of game theory stems from its …

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Educational Federalism and the Quality Effects of Tuition Fees

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2007

This paper investigates how the abolishment of a ban on tuition fees affects the quality of higher education with centralized and decentralized decision making. It is shown that tuition fees fully crowd public funds under centralization and quality of university education does not improve....

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Licensing by a monopolist and unionized labor market

Mukherjee, Soma; Broll, Udo; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2007

We show that a monopolist final goods producer may find it profitable to create competition by licensing its technology if the input market is imperfectly competitive. With a centralized union, we show that licensing by a monopolist is profitable under both uniform and discriminatory wage...

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