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Taxes and the financial structure of German inward FDI
Ramb, Fred; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2004
tax rate of the German affiliate. From our study of a panel of more than 8,000 non-financial affiliates in Germany, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261101
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Evaluating the German inventory cycle : using data from the Ifo business survey
Knetsch, Thomas A. - 2004
Inventory fluctuations are an important phenomenon in business cycles. However, the preliminary data on inventory investment as published in the German national accounts are tremendously prone to revision and therefore ill-equipped to diagnose the current stance of the inventory cycle. The Ifo...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261202
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Drifting together or falling apart? : The empirics of regional economic growth in post-unification Germany
Colavecchio, Roberta; Curran, Declan; Funke, Michael - 2005
The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261325
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Efficient revenue sharing and upper level governments : theory and application to Germany
Büttner, Thiess; Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Schwager, Robert - 2006
in Germany. The results suggest that attempts of state level governments to extract fiscal resources from the local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261409
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Was Germany ever united?: evidence from intra- and international trade 1885 - 1933
Wolf, Nikolaus - 2008
When did Germany become economically integrated? Within the framework of a gravity model, based on a new data set of … about 40,000 observations on trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period 1885-1933, I explore the … internal fragmentation resulted from cultural heterogeneity, from administrative borders within Germany, and from geographical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264457
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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266077
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Migration background and educational tracking: Is there a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrants?
Lüdemann, Elke; Schwerdt, Guido - 2010
Research on immigrants' educational disadvantages largely focuses on differences in student achievement tests. Exploiting data from the German PIRLS extension, we find that second-generation immigrants face additional disadvantages with respect to grades and teacher recommendations for secondary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274804
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Does size matter? The impact of changes in household structure on income distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010
Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274876
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Legislative malapportionment and the politicization of Germany's intergovernmental transfer system
Pitlik, Hans; Schneider, Friedrich G.; Strotmann, Harald - 2005
distribution of fiscal transfers in Germany's intergovernmental transfer system over the period 1970-2002. It can be shown that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276558
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Long memory in German energy price indices
Barros, Carlos Pestana; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2012
This study examines the long-memory properties of German energy price indices (specifically, import and export prices, as well as producer and consumer prices) for hard coal, lignite, mineral oil and natural gas adopting a fractional integration modelling framework. The analysis is undertaken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288234