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Cross-border diversification in bank asset portfolios
Buch, Claudia M.; Driscoll, John C.; Ostergaard, Charlotte - 2005
located in France, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S. under different assumptions about currency hedging. We compare these …
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Information or Regulation: What Is Driving the International Activities of Commercial Banks?
Buch, Claudia M. - 2000
Information costs and regulatory barriers are the main distinguishing features of international financial markets as compared to national financial markets. This paper presents a simple model of the impact of these factors on banks' cross-border activities and provides empirical evidence. Our...
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Das hohe Risiko von Fremdwährungsanleihen
Grabau, Maik; Joebges, Heike - 2012
Häufig wird angenommen, Deutschland und andere von demographischen Problemen betroffene Industrieländer könnten Finanzierungsprobleme der Rentenversicherung durch eine stärkere Kapitaldeckung inklusive Anlage dieses Kapitals im Ausland abmildern. Neben der Annahme, dass die Rendite bei...
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Anpassungsverfahren beim gesetzlichen Mindestlohn: Argumente gegen eine politische Lohnfindung
Lesch, Hagen; Schneider, Helena; Schröder, Christoph - In: List Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik 47 (2021) 2-4, pp. 193-217
die Tarifautonomie noch deutlicher eingeschränkt. Der Blick auf Frankreich und das Vereinigte Königreich zeigt, dass ein …
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The price of media capture and the looting of newspapers in interwar France
Bignon, Vincent; Flandreau, Marc - 2012
. Empirical data is consistent with increasing levels of looting in France during the 1930s. We provide a comparison with Britain …
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Self-selection into export markets by business services firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … services firms into exporting does not show up among firms from France and the UK where no statistically significant …
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Do international portfolio investors follow firms’ foreign investment decisions?
De Santis, Roberto A.; Ehling, Paul - 2007
We analyze the interlinkages between foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign portfolio investment (FPI) between Germany and the major economies. First, we show that Tobin’s q helps explaining the variation of the growth rate of the stock of FDI. Second, we show that foreign and the home...
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Is the elephant stepping on its trunk? The problem of India´s unbalanced growth
Douhan, Robin; Nordberg, Anders - 2007
It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However, evidence suggests that basic manufacturing industry is stagnant. This paper proposes a mechanism that ties these two trends together. A big-push type of model, featuring...
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Non-Scale Growth, Endogenous Comparative Advantages, and Industrialization
Christiaans, Thomas - 2003
, growth, and industrialization. It is shown that the counterfactual prediction of new growth theories regarding a positive … process of industrialization, trade policy can influence long-run growth rates even in non-scale growth models. …
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Tracking down the business cycle: a dynamic factor model for Germany 1820-1913
Sarferaz, Samad; Uebele, Martin - 2007
better use of existing time series data than historical national accounting. To investigate industrialization we propose to …
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