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Does labor force participation rates of youth vary within the business cycle? : evidence from Germany and Poland
Dunsch, Sophie - 2016
Unemployment rates, especially among youth, have increased in various countries of Europe over the last years. As labor force participation rate is one key influence on unemployment, I estimate country specific coefficients for the responsiveness of the labor force participation rates to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528912
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Downward real wage rigidity and equal treatment wage contracts : evidence from Germany ; conference paper
Snell, Andy; Stüber, Heiko - 2014
Theoretical models of downward real wage rigidity generate asymmetric wage cyclicality with real wages being rigid in "bad" times but upwardly flexible during "good". In this paper we use an administrative panel dataset from Germany to establish that such asymmetries are very salient in Germany....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490623
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Consumer reaction on tumbling funds: Evidence from retail fund outflows during the financial crisis 2007/2008
Schmidt, Daniel; Schmielewski, Frank - 2012
Within this study we propose different measures to prove the influence of prior retail fund performance on fund flows. In contrast to previous literature, our work indicates that investors behave directly and in a selective manner by redeeming their shares of poor performing funds. By using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286588
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Households' financial fragility during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
Cziriak, Marius - 2022
I examine the financial fragility of German households during the second wave of COVID-19 infections in the winter of 2020/21 by analyzing the households’ ability to come up with EUR 2,000 within one month. About one in three households reports being unable to cover an unexpected expense of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479842
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Estimating Bilateral Exposures in the German Interbank Market: Is there a Danger of Contagion?
Upper, Christian; Worms, Andreas - 2002
contagion depends on the precise pattern of interbank linkages. We use balance sheet information to estimate the matrix of … contagion. We find that the financial safety net (institutional guarantees for saving banks and cooperative banks) considerably … reduces - but does not eliminate - the danger of contagion. Even so, the failure of a single bank could lead to the breakdown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295726
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Contagion between European and US banks: Evidence from equity prices
Fricke, Daniel - 2010
This paper employs an Extreme Value Theory framework to investigate the existence of contagion between European and US … finding market-based indicators in order to analyze the effects of crises and to quantify the risk of contagion. The Distance … coexceedances allows to interpret significant coefficients of foreign lagged coexceedances as contagion. The main finding is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274429
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Testing for financial spillovers in calm and turbulent periods
Białkowski, Je̜drzej; Bohl, Martin T.; Serwa, Dobromił - In: The quarterly review of economics and finance : journal … 46 (2006) 3, pp. 397-412
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Crossborder financial contagion to Germany : how important are OTC dealers?
Podlich, Natalia; Wedow, Michael - In: International review of financial analysis 33 (2014), pp. 1-9
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Estimating bilateral exposures in the German interbank market : is there a danger of contagion?
Upper, Christian; Worms, Andreas - 2002
contagion depends on the precise pattern of interbank linkages. We use balance sheet information to estimate the matrix of … contagion. We find that the financial safety net (institutional guarantees for saving banks and cooperative banks) considerably … reduces - but does not eliminate - the danger of contagion. Even so, the failure of a single bank could lead to the breakdown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431377
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From financial to real economic crisis : evidence from individual firm-bank relationships in Germany
Dwenger, Nadja; Fossen, Frank M.; Simmler, Martin - 2015 - This version: September 25, 2015
What began as a financial crisis in the United States in 2007–2008 quickly evolved into a massive crisis of the global real economy. We investigate the importance of the bank lending and firm borrowing channel in the international transmission of bank distress to the real economy—in...
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