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Individual Determinants of Social Fairness Assessments: The Case of Germany
Hennighausen, Tanja; Heinemann, Friedrich; Bischoff, Ivo - 2008
: first fairness preferences, second beliefs on the sources of economic success and the functioning of democracy and third … selfinterest. We test this framework on representative survey data for Germany for the years 1991, 2000 and 2004. Our results …
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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 … continuously at the expense of the state governments untilWorldWar II, after 1950 the state level regained importance. An empirical … 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 … from tax competition. This paper further explores the conditions under which local grant systems enforced by the state … state level. A subsequent empirical analysis of local tax policy exploits the experience with local fiscal revenue sharing …
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Industry-level wage bargaining : a partial rehabilitation ; the German experience
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be …
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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
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