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Investment, Internal Funds and Public Banking in Germany

Engel, Dirk; Middendorf, Torge - 2007

Previous studies argued that low investment-cash flow sensitivities of German firms may be caused by dominance of public banking.The paper addresses this topic and applies a unique accounting dataset of German firms. Results from a dynamic panel data approach show that the dependence of...

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How Do Banks Determine Capital? Empirical Evidence for Germany

Weber, Martin; Kleff, Volker - 2003

and 2001 provided by the Deutsche Bundesbank, we apply the generalised method of moments (GMM) within a dynamic panel data …

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Dynamics of Labour and Capital Adjustment : A Comparison of Germany and the Netherlands

Polder, Michael; Verick, Sher - 2004

In this paper we investigate the dynamic adjustment of labour and capital in German and Dutch firms. The Dutch labour market is characterised by greater flexibility in wages and work arrangements in comparison to Germany. These institutional differences imply that employment dynamics in the two...

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A comparison of dynamic panel data estimators : Monte Carlo evidence and an application to the investment function

Behr, Andreas - 2003

sample properties of the GMM-methods. In the case of endogenous predetermined regressors, the system-estimator proposed by … Blundell and Bond is unbiased and most efficient, while direct bias corrected estimators perform similar to the GMM … die bekannt günstigen Eigenschaften von GMM-Schätzern bei großer Beobachtungszahl wider. Im Falle endogener …

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Zukunftsangst! : fear of (and hope for) the future and its impact on life satisfaction

Piper, Alan - 2014

The thoughts that an individual has about the future contribute substantially to their life satisfaction in a positive or negative direction. This is a result found via five different methods, some of which control for personality and disposition and the potential endogeneity of thoughts and...

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Optimism, pessimism and life satisfaction : an empirical investigation

Piper, Alan T. - 2019 - This version: February 2019

This empirical investigation into life satisfaction, using nationally representative German panel data, finds a substantial association with an individual's thoughts about the future, whether they are optimistic or pessimistic about it. Furthermore, including individuals' optimism and pessimism...

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Persistence of Innovation : Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence

Peters, Bettina - 2008

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at the firm-level to a very large extent. Using a dynamic...

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Unit nonresponse at the firm level : a cross-border analysis using the IAB-ReLOC data

Hecht, Veronika; Litzel, Nicole; Schäffler, Johannes - In: Journal for labour market research 53 (2019) 2, pp. 1-18

The labour market effects of foreign direct investments (FDI) are a topic of constant interest. However, research progress is hindered as most datasets applied in research on this topic suffer from selectivity with respect to firm size. To overcome this deficiency a unique dataset that covers...

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Within and between panel cointegration in the German regional output-trade-FDI nexus

Mitze, Timo - 2010 - First version: May 2010; this version: October 2010

For spatial data with a sufficiently long time dimension, the concept of global cointegration has been recently included in the econometrics research agenda. Global cointegration arises when non-stationary time series are cointegrated both within and between spatial units. In this paper, we...

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Within and between panel cointegration in the German regional output-trade-FDI nexus

Mitze, Timo - 2010

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