bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and liabilities of commercial banks from five countries (France, Germany …, Italy, UK, US) in up to 50 host countries for the years 1983 through 1998 to test this hypothesis. For the European banks …

Euro area (Germany, France, Italy and Spain), the UK and the USA. The result are very different for the countries …

This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After …

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we conduct a decomposition analysis …

data from the European innovation survey (CIS 2), covering Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK, broken down …-sectional estimation methodologies able to account for unobserved industrial characteristics, show that productivity in Europe relies on …, in Italy the introduction of new machinery linked to innovation appears as the key mechanism supporting domestic …

major subsegments of the electrical industry is analysed in more detail for the case of West Germany. …

largest in the US but insignificant in Italy and Slovenia. Trust in government has a negative effect on demand for … effect is only significant in the US and Germany. Overall, the main theories that have been proposed to account for …

) aggregate. We identify reasonable and stable money demand relationships for Germany, France and Spain as well as the EMU-4 … aggregate. For the case of Italy, results are less clear. From the estimated money demand functions, we derive both EMU-4 and …