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Industry-level wage bargaining : a partial rehabilitation ; the German experience

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be …

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Empirical evidence on the success of R&D co-operation: Happy together?

Aschhoff, Birgit; Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

In this paper we analyse the effect of R&D co-operation on firms? innovation performance. We investigate the effect of past co-operation on current sales of innovative products, distinguishing between products new to the firm and new to the market, and on cost reductions due to innovative...

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Efficient Revenue Sharing and Upper Level Governments: Theory and Application to Germany

Buettner, Thiess; Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

in Germany. The results suggest that attempts of state level governments to extract fiscal resources from the local …

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Who Gets the Money? The Dynamics of R&D Project Subsidies in Germany

Aschhoff, Birgit - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

The question of the allocation of public R&D funding is becoming particularly important when it comes to identifying the effects of state subsidies, in terms of input or output additionality. This analysis goes one important step further than the existing literature by including the time...

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Forecasting economic activity in Germany: how useful are sentiment indicators?

Schröder, Michael; Hüfner, Felix P. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

We analyze four economic sentiment indicators for the German economy regarding their ability to forecast economic activity. Using cross correlations and Granger causality tests we find that the ifo business expectations (ifo), the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) and the ZEW Indicator of Economic...

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Payout Policy and Owners? Interests: Evidence from German Savings Banks

Kleff, Volker; Weber, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

The savings banks? decision to distribute profits among their public owners is strongly regulated by law in order to guarantee their adequate funding via retained profits. However, the legal scope is reluctantly exhausted. In this study we examine the determinants of the savings banks? payout...

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Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …

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Earnings Prospects for People with Migration Background in Germany

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using … Germany lead to better earnings prospects compared to degrees obtained abroad for persons with migration background …. Independently of gender and skill level, the estimates affirm higher earnings to educational attainment in Germany. …

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Oil and Unemployment in Germany

Löschel, Andreas; Oberndorfer, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

In this paper, we analyze oil price impacts on unemployment for Germany. Firstly, we survey theoretical and empirical … framework of a vector autoregression (VAR) approach for Germany. For this purpose, we use three different specifications in … restricted sample period for post-unification Germany, we oppose claims that the oil to macroeconomy relationship has weakened …

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Capital policy of German savings banks: a survey

Kleff, Volker - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

In contrast to earlier field studies, we survey German public savings banks on their management of capital. We find that the most important determinants of the savings banks? target capital ratio are risk aversion, the desired credit growth and profitability. Savings banks prefer to manage the...

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