Is Merger Control too Lax in Transition Countries? An Assessment of the apparently passive behaviour of Antimonopoly and Competition Offices towards enterprise concentration in transition countries
Jens Hölscher, L. Somogyi, Johannes Stephan, A. Török
ACE Phare Project No: P97-8020-R,
2001
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Basisarchitektur verhandlungsfähiger Agenten
H. Czap, Makram El-Shagi
Proceedings des 3. Kolloquiums des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms: „Intelligente Softwareagenten und betriebswirtschaftliche Anwendungsszenarien“,,
2001
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Analysing UDROP: An instrument for stabilizing the international financial architecture
Axel Lindner
International Finance,
No. 1,
2001
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This paper analyses implications of a proposal, called UDROP, to reform the standards of international debt contracts. The idea is to give borrowers a roll-over option at maturity for a specified length of time. Using recently developed models of financial crises, the paper shows for which type of crisis UDROP is beneficial. Moral hazard of the borrower is one of the problems UDROP faces which can be addressed by appropriately designing the debt contract.
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Das deutsche Innovationssystem seit der Reichsgründung. Indikatoren einer nationalen Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte in unterschiedlichen Regierungs- und Gebietstrukturen
Hariolf Grupp, Iciar Dominguez Lacasa, Monika Friedrich-Nishio
,
2002
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Structural Vector Autoregressive Models and Monetary Policy Analysis
Oliver Holtemöller
SFB 373 Discussion Paper 7/2002,
2002
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Vogelgrippe beflügelt - Dezentrale operative oder zentrale strategische Bereitstellung von Gegenmaßnahmen?
Katja Drechsel, D. Sonntag
WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium,
No. 8,
2006
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Where enterprises lead, people follow? Links between migration and FDI in Germany
Claudia M. Buch, J. Kleinert, Farid Toubal
European Economic Review,
No. 8,
2006
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Standard neoclassical models of economic integration are based on the assumptions that capital and labor are substitutes and that the geography of factor market integration does not matter. Yet, these two assumptions are violated if agglomeration forces among factors from specific source countries are at work. Agglomeration implies that factors behave as complements and that the country of origin matters. This paper analyzes agglomeration between capital and labor empirically. We use state-level German data to answer the question whether and how migration and foreign direct investment (FDI) are linked. Stocks of inward FDI and of immigrants have similar determinants, and the geography of factor market integration matters. There are higher stocks of inward FDI in German states hosting a large foreign population from the same country of origin. This agglomeration effect is confined to higher-income source countries.
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Clustering or Competition? The Foreign Investment Behavior of German Banks
Claudia M. Buch, A. Lipponer
International Journal of Central Banking,
2006
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Banks often concentrate their foreign direct investment (FDI) in certain countries. This clustering of activities could reflect either the attractiveness of a particular country or agglomeration effects. To find out which of the two phenomena dominates, we need to control for country-specific factors. We use new bank-level data on German banks’ FDI for the 1996-2003 period.We test whether the presence of other banks has a positive impact on the entry of new banks. Once we control for the attractiveness of a country through fixed effects, the negative impact of competition dominates. Hence, pure clustering effects are rather unimportant.
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