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Banks in space: Does distance really affect cross-border banking?

Neugebauer, Katja - 2011

During the last years, gravity equations have leapt from the trade literature over into the literature on financial markets. Martin and Rey (2004) were the first to provide a theoretical model for cross-border asset trade, yielding a structural gravity equation that could be tested empirically....

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An almost ideal wage database harmonizing the ILO October Inquiry

Harsch, Daniela; Kleinert, Jörn - 2011

The lack of comprehensive, international comparable wage data has been deplored for decades and has constrained the empirical analysis of wage growth and inequality. This is the case although, since 1924, the International Labor Organization (ILO) has conducted an October Inquiry to obtain data...

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Nationality matters: The geographic origin of multinationals and the productivity of their foreign affiliates

Arndt, Christian; Spies, Julia - 2012

While quantifying the foreign ownership premium has received a lot of attention in the empirical literature, there is only little known about productivity variations between foreign affiliates of multinational firms. In order to enhance the understanding of the economic causes of this...

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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010

-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of self-employment …

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and …-economic background of these individuals, their education, previous employment status, and their income level. We observe a unique … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East …

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The interdependence between biodiversity and socioeconomic variables on a local level: Evidence for german counties

Münch, Angela; Völkl, Wolfgang - 2011

This paper explores possible interdependence of biodiversity and several socioeconomic and political factors at the county level. It is aimed at the empirical identification of direct and indirect effects between biodiversity (loss) and their theoretical major impact factors. To date, research...

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Trust, confidence and economic growth: An evaluation of the Beugelsdijk Hypothesis

Volland, Benjamin - 2010

This paper analyses the hypothesis that the robust relationship between trust - as measured by the World Values Survey's question 'In general, do you think that most people can be trusted, or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?' - and economic growth, established by empirical...

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