the possibility of realization of merger efficiency gains, specifically in the transport industry. Yet, there exists … groups may give rise to merger efficiency gains. We exploit the industry setting to employ a difference …-in-differences methodology evaluating the effect of the merger on operating costs of merging transport groups. Our results show that the merger …

for France, Germany, Italy and the UK. It will be particularly interesting to have a closer look at the situation in … Germany, since this country is generally considered a "service laggard" (see summaries of the debate in Cornetz/Schäfer 1999 … holds for the introduction of innovative technology-based business models in service firms. If service sectors in Germany …

-2% for Germany. The ECB's interventions designed to reduce the risk of a breakup successfully did so for Italy, but … increased it for France and Germany. …

With Germany's nuclear phase-out, 23 reactors need to be dismantled in the near future. Initiated by the dire financial … flows and storage levels of low- and intermediate-level waste (LLW and ILW) as well as the associated costs. Results show … decommissioning schedule. However, a delay of ten years might now increase interim storage costs borne by the public by over 20%. By …

We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, Spain, and Greece based on the Household Finance … of household wealth in Germany jumps up from 24 percent in the HFCS alone to 33 percent after top wealth imputation. For …

including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as …

and the entire euro area (20 percent). For Germany and France the gains seem to be lower, but are nevertheless substantial …

Using high-frequency transaction data for the three largest European markets (France, Germany and Italy), this paper …