Teil 1: Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung – aktuelle Situation und Trends bis 2030
Dominik Weiß
C. Deilmann, P. Haug (Hrsg.), Demographischer Wandel und technische Infrastruktur: Wer soll die Kosten tragen? Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel ostdeutscher Mittelstädte,
2011
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Im einleitenden Teil des Bandes “Demographischer Wandel und technische Infrastruktur: Wer soll die Kosten tragen?“ wird die wirtschaftliche Struktur der drei Fallstudien-Städte anhand der Entwicklung und Verteilung der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten dargestellt. Es werden weiterhin jeweils zwei Szenarien als mögliche Entwicklungspfade der lokalen Wirtschaft aufgezeigt, woraus sich jedoch keine nennenswerten Erweiterungsnotwendigkeiten für die technische Infrastruktur ergeben.
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Flow of conjunctural information and forecast of euro area economic activity
Katja Drechsel, L. Maurin
ECB Working Paper, no. 925,
2008
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Evidence on the effects of inflation on price dispersion under indexation
Juliane Scharff, S. Schreiber
IMK Working Paper, No. 12/2008,
2008
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Die verzerrenden Auswirkungen von Inflation auf relative Preise sind das Hauptargument für Inflationsstabilisierung in Makromodellen mit Preisrigiditäten. Bei Indexierung von nicht optimierten Preisen implizieren diese Modelle einen nichtlinearen und dynamischen Einfluss von Inflation auf die Preis-Streuung im Querschnitt (relative Preisvariabilität, RPV). Wir schätzen eine verallgemeinerte Form dieser theoretischen Beziehung zwischen Inflation und RPV mit US-Daten. Wir bestätigen den Einfluss von Inflationsschwankungen, jedoch finden wir bisher vernachlässigte Endogenitätsverzerrungen, und unsere IV- und GMM-Schätzungen zeigen, dass die durchschnittliche (“Trend-“) Inflation bei der Indexierung signifikant ist. Die verzögerte Inflationsrate ist weniger wichtig.
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Weltweite Ansteckung – Berechtigte Sorge oder grundlose Panik?
Makram El-Shagi
Politik und Zeitgeschichte,
2008
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Finanzkrise – Schadensbegrenzung in der Wirtschaft: Übertragung der Probleme auf die realwirtschaftliche Ebene
Ulrich Blum
Wirtschaftsdienst,
Nr. 12,
2008
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Das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen und seine Finanzierung
Ingmar Kumpmann
cege-Report Februar 2008,
2008
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Antwort auf einen Beitrag von Robert Schwager im vorangegangenen cege-Report. Das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen soll Armut reduzieren. Zu seiner Finanzierung können bisherige Sozialleistungen und Steuervergünstigungen teilweise entfallen. Kern der Finanzierungsfrage ist jedoch die Folge des Grundeinkommens für die Leistungsanreize in der Ökonomie.
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Performance of European countries in biotechnology - How does Europe compare to the USA?
Thomas Reiss, Iciar Dominguez Lacasa
International Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 10 (4),
2008
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Growth, Volatility, and Credit Market Imperfections: Evidence from German Firms
Claudia M. Buch, Jörg Döpke
Journal of Economic Studies,
2008
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, it studies whether output volatility and growth are linked at the firm-level, using data for German firms. Second, it explores whether the link between volatility and growth depends on the degree of credit market imperfections.
Design/methodology/approach – The authors use a novel firm-level dataset provided by the Deutsche Bundesbank, the so-called Financial Statements Data Pool. The dataset has time series observations for German firms for the period 1997-2004, and the authors use information on the debt-to-assets or leverage ratio of firms to proxy for credit-constraints at the firm-level. As additional proxies for the importance of credit market imperfections, we use information on the size and on the legal status of firms.
Findings – The authors find that higher volatility has a negative impact on growth for small and a positive impact for larger firms. Higher leverage is associated with higher growth. At the same time, there is heterogeneity in the determinants of growth across firms from different sectors and across firms with a different legal status.
Practical implications – While most traditional macroeconomic models assume that growth and volatility are uncorrelated, a number of microeconomic models suggest that the two may be linked. However, it is unclear whether the link is positive or negative. The paper presents additional evidence regarding this question. Moreover, understanding whether credit market conditions affect the link between volatility and growth is of importance for policy makers since it suggests a channel through which the credit market can have long-run welfare implications. The results stress the importance of firm-level heterogeneity for the effects and effectiveness of economic policy measures.
Originality/value – The paper has two main novel features. First, it uses a novel firm-level dataset to analyze the determinants of firm-level growth. Second, it analyzes the growth-volatility nexus using firm-level data. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first paper, which addresses the link between volatility, growth, and credit market imperfections using firm-level data.
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Exchange Rates and FDI: Goods versus Capital Market Frictions
Claudia M. Buch, J. Kleinert
World Economy,
im Erscheinen
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Changes in exchange rates affect countries through their impact on cross-border activities such as trade and foreign direct investment (FDI). With increasing activities of multinational firms, the FDI channel is likely to gain in importance. Economic theory provides two main explanations why changes in exchange rates can affect FDI. According to the first explanation, FDI reacts to exchange rate changes if there are information frictions on capital markets and if investment depends on firms’ net worth (capital market friction hypothesis). According to the second explanation, FDI reacts to exchange rate changes if output and factor markets are segmented, and if firm-specific assets are important (goods market friction hypothesis). We provide a unified theoretical framework of these two explanations. We analyse the implications of the model empirically using a dataset based on detailed German firm-level data. We find greater support for the goods market than for the capital market friction hypothesis.
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Do Weak Supervisory Systems Encourage Bank Risk-taking?
Claudia M. Buch, G. DeLong
Journal of Financial Stability,
2008
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Weak bank supervision could give banks the ability to shift risk from themselves to supervisors. We use cross-border bank mergers as a natural experiment to test changes in risk and the impact of supervision. We examine cross-border bank mergers and find that the supervisory structures of the partners’ countries influence changes in post-merger total risk. An acquirer from a country with strong supervision lowers total risk after a cross-border merger. However, total risk increases when the target bank is located in a country with relatively strong supervision. This result is consistent with strong host regulators limiting the risky activities of their local banks. Foreign-owned competitors could then engage in the risky projects, especially if the foreign banks’ supervisors are not strong. An acquirer entering a country with strong supervision appears to shift risk back to its home country. The results suggest that bank supervisors can reduce total banking risk in their countries by being strong.
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