Seit 1992 berichten das Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung in Berlin, das Institut für Weltwirtschaft in Kiel und das Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle im Auftrag des Bundeswirtschaftsministeriums zweimal jährlich über „Die wirtschaftliche Lage Rußlands". Die Institute...

This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign activities of German banks. We use regionally disaggregated panel data for the years 1981-98 and distinguish foreign direct investment from total foreign assets of domestic banks, of their foreign branches and their...

Has the labor share declined? And what is the impact of international trade? These questions are not only relevant in an international context they also matter for understanding the regional distribution of incomes in a given country. In this paper, we study two regions with trade exposures that...