This paper studies the globalisation of CPI inflation by analysing core, energy and food components, testing for structural breaks in the relationships between domestic inflation and a corresponding country-specific foreign inflation series at the monthly frequency for OECD countries.The...

In dieser Arbeit wird die Schätzmethode der Verallgemeinerten Momente (Generalized Method of Moments - GMM) vorgestellt. Neben der formalen Darstellung wird besonderes Augenmerk auf die notwendige Schätzung der Gewichtungsmatrix und auf Testmethoden im Rahmen der GMM gelegt. Anhand einer...

Why does venture capital work in some countries but not in others? This clinical study of the first German venture capital firm examines the difficulties of creating a venture capital market in a bank-based financial system. The analysis identifies the problem of creating appropriate governance...