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Restrukturierung der kommunalen Dienstleistungsproduktion: Innovationsfähigkeit deutscher Kommunen in internationaler Perspektive

Oppen, Maria; Wegener, Alexander - 1998

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Weltkonjunktur und deutsche Konjunktur im Winter 2010

Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens; Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Jannsen, Nils; … - 2010

[Weltkonjunktur schwächt sich ab] Die Weltwirtschaft ist nach der Phase des "Bounce Back" von der Großen Rezession in eine Phase moderater Expansion eingetreten, die voraussichtlich bis weit in das kommende Jahr hinein anhalten wird. Mehr und mehr machen sich Bremsfaktoren bemerkbar, die einer...

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Weltkonjunktur und deutsche Konjunktur im Sommer 2011

Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens; Boss, Alfred; Scheide, Joachim; … - 2011

[Etwas ruhigere Gangart der Weltkonjunktur] Nachdem die Weltproduktion im Winterhalbjahr 2010/11 in beschleunigtem Tempo gestiegen ist, deuten die jüngsten Indikatoren auf eine aktuell wieder etwas langsamere konjunkturelle Expansion hin. Auch für den weiteren Prognosezeitraum erwarten wir...

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Weltkonjunktur im Frühjahr 2011

Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens; Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Jannsen, Nils; … - 2010

[Weltkonjunktur bleibt vorerst kräftig] Der Aufschwung der Weltwirtschaft hat sich in den vergangenen Monaten wieder beschleunigt. Allerdings lässt eine Reihe von Faktoren erwarten, dass die weltwirtschaftliche Dynamik im Verlauf dieses Jahres wieder an Schwung verliert. In den...

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A new method for measuring tail exponents of firm size distributions

Fujimoto, Shouji; Ishikawa, Atushi; Mizuno, Takayuki; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 5 (2011) 2011-20, pp. 1-20

The authors propose a new method for estimating the power-law exponents of firm size variables. Their focus is on how … to empirically identify a range in which a firm size variable follows a power-law distribution. On the one hand, as is … well known a firm size variable follows a power-law distribution only beyond some threshold. On the other hand, in almost …

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How do credit supply shocks propagate internationally? A GVAR approach

Eickmeier, Sandra; Ng, Tim - 2011

We study how credit supply shocks in the US, the euro area and Japan are transmitted to other economies. We use the recently-developed GVAR approach to model financial variables jointly with macroeconomic variables in 33 countries for the period 1983-2009. We experiment with inter-country links...

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Noncognitive skills in economics: Models, measurement, and empirical evidence

Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2011

There is an increasing economic literature considering personality traits as a source of individual differences in labor market productivity and other outcomes. This paper provides an overview on the role of these skills regarding three main aspects: measurement, development over the life...

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Capital structure choice and company taxation: A meta-study

Feld, Lars P.; Heckemeyer, Jost H.; Overesch, Michael - 2011

This paper provides a quantitative review of the empirical literature on the tax impact on corporate debt financing. Synthesizing the evidence from 46 previous studies, we find that this impact is substantial. In particular, the tax rate proxy determines the outcome of primary analyses. Measures...

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The use of tax havens in exemption regimes

Gumpert, Anna; Hines, James R.; Schnitzer, Monika - 2011

This paper analyzes the tax haven investment behavior of multinational firms from a country that exempts foreign income from taxation. High foreign tax rates generally encourage firms to invest in tax havens, though significant costs of reallocating taxable income dampen these incentives. The...

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Cross-border bank lending, risk aversion and the financial crisis

Düwel, Cornelia; Frey, Rainer; Lipponer, Alexander - 2011

This study investigates the determinants of adjustments in the provision of cross-border loans by internationally active banks. For the period from 2002 to 2010, we look at quarterly transaction data (excluding valuation effects) on long-term loans issued by the largest 69 German banking groups...

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