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bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and liabilities of commercial banks from five countries (France, Germany …
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-ins for monetary union with respect to Germany. Using tests for cointegration and common features for monthly data during the …
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A contingent claims valuation model which allows to highlight the implications of program trading in spot markets for the pricing of European-style foreign currency options and for the volatility strike structure implicit in these contracts is devoloped. The curvature of the volatility strike...
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We used a recursive modeling approach to study whether investors could, in real time, have used information on the comovement of stock markets to forecast stock returns in European stock markets for high-technology firms. We used weekly data on returns in the Neuer Markt, the Nouveau Marché,...
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We study return predictability of stock indexes of blue chip firms and smaller hightechnology firms in Germany, France …
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Information costs and regulatory barriers are the main distinguishing features of international financial markets as compared to national financial markets. This paper presents a simple model of the impact of these factors on banks' cross-border activities and provides empirical evidence. Our...
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Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to … council ; Germany …
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and Gertler (1998, 2000) to study monetary policy in Germany in the period 1991 to 1998. The estimation results show that …
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structural breaks in the dynamics and the volatility of the real output process in Germany can be detected. We report evidence … that output volatility has declined in Germany. Yet, this decline in output volatility is not as clear-cut as it is in the … in Germany reflects good economic and monetary policy or merely "good luck". …
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign activities of German banks. We use regionally disaggregated panel data for the years 1981-98 and distinguish foreign direct investment from total foreign assets of domestic banks, of their foreign branches and their...
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