are even larger for cooperative banks than for public banks. -- financially distressed firms ; bank lending ; public banks …

Germany's bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. … comparison with the United States. It has been argued that lack of product market competition and poor corporate governance are … econometric analysis of firm performance in Germany. Based on a unique panel data set with detailed information on almost 400 …

electricity companies and transnational competition, Chile and Brazil have only partially liberalized their electricity sector …

bank. The results suggest that capital requirements may only be of second-order importance for banks' capital structures …

of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on … firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a negative impact in Eastern Germany. We also consider future … financial distress, and find that R&D in Eastern German firms leads to higher default risk, in contrast to Western Germany …

general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … results for Germany reveal exactly the opposite effect. These results suggest that both specialization and diversity theories …

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. …

This paper investigates the functioning of regional labour markets in Italy and Germany for different employee groups … the West and East of Germany, we first derive theoretical hypotheses on group specific correlations between regional … Italy. In the case of Germany, results are quite sensitive to the model specification and the employee group considered. In …

large economies, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. The empirical results show that although the pure NGARCH …