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Overcoming obstacles to successful reforms in economies in transition

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); Funke, Norbert (contributor) - Institut für Weltwirtschaft - 1994

sowie die Privatisierung. Die Verschärfung von Budgetrestriktionen für Unternehmen spielt eine essentielle Rolle zu Beginn … werden, die teilweise immer noch bestehen bzw. in reformierten Systemen weiterexistieren. Auf dem Gebiet der Privatisierung … werfen sich folgende Probleme auf: Es besteht die Frage, in wieweit die Privatisierung von Unternehmen zusätzliche …

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Openness and growth : the long shadow of the Berlin Wall

Buch, Claudia M.; Toubal, Farid - In: Journal of macroeconomics 31 (2009) 3, pp. 409-422

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Trade's impact on the labor share : evidence from German and Italian regions

Buch, Claudia M.; Monti, Paola; Toubal, Farid - 2008

Has the labor share declined? And what is the impact of international trade? These questions are not only relevant in an international context they also matter for understanding the regional distribution of incomes in a given country. In this paper, we study two regions with trade exposures that...

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Openness and growth : the long shadow of the Berlin Wall

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); Toubal, Farid (contributor) - 2007

The question whether international openness causes higher domestic growth has been subject to intense discussions in the empirical growth literature. This paper addresses this issue using the fall of the Berlin wall in 1990 as a natural experiment. We analyze whether the slow-down in convergence...

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Banking globalization : international consolidation and mergers in banking

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); Spindler, Markus (contributor) - 2008

This paper surveys recent literature on international mergers and acquisitions in banking. We focus on three main questions. First, what are the determinants of cross-border mergers of commercial banks? Second, do cross-border mergers affect the efficiency of banks? Third, what are the risk...

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Cross-border bank mergers : what lures the rare animal?

Buch, Claudia M.; DeLong, Gayle L. - 2001

Although domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the financial services industry have increased steadily over the past two decades, international M&As were relatively rare until recently. This paper uses a novel dataset of over 2,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse...

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