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There's no Place Like Home: A Strategic Framework to Overcome Liability of Foreignness in the German Car Market

Sofka, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Jörg - 2005

Germany through firm-specific advantages. Still, some face significant challenges. A submarket analysis shows that home market … advantages are more deeply rooted in the Western part of Germany and that foreign competitors find a more accessible competitive … environment in Eastern Germany. Therefore, East Germany is a superior platform for deploying effective and efficient …

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Private Incentives to Innovate: Interplay of New Products and Brand-Name Reputation

Leheyda, Nina - 2008

This paper studies the introduction of new products (increase in product variety) in the automobile industry. The focus is on the two sources of market power that may allow the firms to get higher profits (and, thus, recoup investments): new products and brand-name reputation. The effects of new...

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Competition and trust: Evidence from German car manufacturers

Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; Stahl, Konrad O. - 2011

We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...

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What Determines the ZEW Indicator?

Hüfner, Felix P.; Lahl, David - 2003

This paper analyzes which factors are driving the ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment. Using the results of a poll among survey participants as well as Granger causality tests we identify three groups of influence factors: other sentiment indicators, financial variables and real economy data. In...

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Auswirkungen von Erbschaften und Schenkungen auf die Vermögensbildung privater Personen und Haushalte: Eine ökonometrische Analyse auf der Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels

Westerheide, Peter - 2004

Die Untersuchung analysiert das Sparverhalten der über 30- bis unter 50jährigen Personen bzw. Haushalte mit Haushaltsvorständen in dieser Altersgruppe in Reaktion auf erhaltene Erbschaften bzw. Transfers zu Lebzeiten. Zugrunde liegen aktuelle Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels. Mittels...

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Integrated Financial Supervision in Germany

Schüler, Martin - 2004

With the establishment of the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) in May 2002 Germany followed the … authority in Germany. Moreover, BaFin?s tasks and structure are discussed. …

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Centralizing Tendencies in the Public Sector in Germany

Stegarescu, Dan - 2005

This paper investigates the long-term trend and the underlying determinants of public sector centralization in Germany … of Germany. …

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

Kleff, Volker; Weber, Martin - 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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Capital policy of German savings banks: a survey

Kleff, Volker - 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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Efficient Revenue Sharing and Upper Level Governments: Theory and Application to Germany

Buettner, Thiess; Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Schwager, Robert - 2006

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

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