This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from …

’s domestic bank by an internationalized banking group. Our results show that, after the acquisition, firms have a significantly … higher probability of starting export in countries where the consolidated bank has a foreign branch, which proxies for the … mainly reduce firms’ fixed entry costs in a foreign market. The analysis also shows that other channels, such as bank credit …

.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …

East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …

into self-employment and survival of self-employed persons in Germany. The empirical analysis reveals that among the …