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Buch, Claudia M. - 2001

If the technological revolution which has taken place over the past decades has lowered information costs and if information costs increase in distance, distance should - ceteris paribus - become less important in determining international bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and...

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Foreign competition and disintermediation : no threat to the German banking system?

Buch, Claudia M.; Golder, Stefan M. - 1999

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Distance and international banking

Buch, Claudia M. - 2001

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Cross-border diversification in bank asset portfolios

Buch, Claudia M.; Driscoll, John C.; Ostergaard, Charlotte - 2005

Taking the mean-variance portfolio model as a benchmark, we compute the optimally diversified portfolio for banks located in France, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S. under different assumptions about currency hedging. We compare these optimal portfolios to the actual cross-border assets of banks...

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Immigrants in Two Modern Nations: Characteristics of the Foreign and Native Born Populations in Germany and the United States

Frick, Joachim R.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Wagner, Gert G. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 297-307

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Crises, rescues, and policy transmission through international banks

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Koetter, Michael - 2011

The World Financial Crisis has shaken the fundamentals of international banking and triggered a downward spiral of asset prices. To prevent a further meltdown of markets, governments have intervened massively through rescues measures aimed at recapitalizing banks and through liquidity support....

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The role of banks: Evidence from Germany and the US

Brichs Serra, Elisabet; Buch, Claudia M.; Nienaber, Thomas - 1997

In the discussion about the structure and evolution of financial systems, the US separated and the German universal banking system are commonly considered as antipodes. This paper shows that the differences in the role of banks in these two economies are less pronounced than the conventional...

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Two scales, one methodology: Expenditure based equivalence scales for the United States and Germany

Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - 1994

Choosing an appropriate equivalence scale is a prerequisite for comparisons of economic well-being income distribution, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use a country specific equivalence scale (social...

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Relative inequality and poverty in Germany and the United States using alternative equivalence scales

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - 1994

Mikrodaten von Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten der Luxemburg Income Study (LIS) werden verwendet, um die … Merz et al. (1993) für Deutschland und die Vereinigten Staaten entwickelt wurden. Frühere Studien bestätigend zeigen wir …, daß Ungleichheit und Armut in den Vereinigten Staaten gößer sind als in Deutschland. Alle Personengruppen zusammen …

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Failure to launch: Cross-national trends in the transition to economic independence

Bell, Lisa; Burtless, Gary; Gornick, Janet; Smeeding, … - 2007

We analyze trends in the age of economic independence in six industrialized countries, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper compares trends in the household living arrangements, employment rates, earnings levels, and net incomes as young adults...

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