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Do Business-related Services Really Lag Behind Manufacturing Industries in the Business Cycle? Empirical Evidence on the Lead/Lag Relationship Between Business-related Services and...
Kaiser, Ulrich; Voß, Katrin - 1999
In an a priori view, it is usually assumed that the business cycle of manufacturing industries leads the business cycle of the service sector. This seems to be even more plausible for the relationship between business-related services, whose high growth rates in recent years were largely due to...
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The Effects of Regional and Industry: Wide FDI Spillovers on Export of Ukrainian Firms
Park, Sang-Min; Talavera, Oleksandr; Lutz, Stefan - 2003
in order to test for industrial and regional spillovers. The estimation results suggest that large firms, durable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297304
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Kollektive Lohnverhandlungen und Auslandsdirektinvestitionen: eine empirische Studie mit Firmendaten
Peters, Ralf-Henning - 2000
Diese Studie untersucht den Einfluss des Tarifvertragssystems auf die Entscheidung von Unternehmen, im Ausland zu investieren. Ein Lohnverhandlungsmodell zeigt, dass produktive Unternehmen durch Flächentarifverträge im Heimatland begünstigt werden und seltener im Ausland investieren als bei...
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Do Ukrainian Firms Benefit from FDI?
Talavera, Oleksandr; Lutz, Stefan H. - 2003
All countries are eager to attract as much foreign investments as possible. At the same time FDI may have not only positive, but also negative economic effects for receiving countries. Positive effects are associated with technology transfer, efficient allocation of resources, and training of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298136
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The impact of corporate taxes on investment: An explanatory empirical analysis for interested practitioners
Dreßler, Daniel - 2012
The scientific literature provides evidence for an impact of company taxes on investments. Practitioners, however, have a skeptical view on the meaning of this effect. This paper builds the bridge between research and the interested practice by providing detailed descriptives and clearly showing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309286
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How Do Banks Determine Capital? Empirical Evidence for Germany
Weber, Martin; Kleff, Volker - 2003
This paper examines how capital is determined by German banks. We analyse whether the determinants found in the previous empirical literature hold for the special German banking sector with its three characteristic banking groups of savings banks, cooperative banks and other banks. On the basis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297333
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The threat of systemic risk in banking: evidence for Europe
Schüler, Martin - 2002
on a European level. Following De Nicolo and Kwast (2001), mean rolling-window correlations between bank stock returns …
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Systemic Risk in European Banking: Evidence from Bivariate GARCH Models
Schüler, Martin; Schröder, Michael - 2003
conditional correlations between European bank stock indices. These correlations are used as an indication for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298129
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An information economics perspective on main bank relationships and firm R&D
Hoewer, Daniel; Schmidt, Tobias; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2011
distributed between inventors and investors. As a result, bank lending for firm R&D has been rare. However, firms can signal the … potential to alter the risk assessment of the firm's main bank. Additionally, we explore heterogeneities in these risk … assessments arising from the industry level and the main bank's portfolio. We test our theoretical predictions for a sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306611
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Map Intersection Based Merging Schemes for Administrative Data Sources and an Application to Germany
Arntz, Melanie; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be merged. It presents different merging schemes based on...
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