Bank Market Power, Factor Reallocation, and Aggregate Growth
R. Inklaar, Michael Koetter, Felix Noth
Journal of Financial Stability,
2015
Abstract
Using a unique firm-level sample of approximately 700,000 firm-year observations of German small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this study seeks to identify the effect of bank market power on aggregate growth components. We test for a pre-crisis sample whether bank market power spurs or hinders the reallocation of resources across informationally opaque firms. Identification relies on the dependence on external finance in each industry and the regional demarcation of regional banking markets in Germany. The results show that bank markups spur aggregate SME growth, primarily through technical change and the reallocation of resources. Banks seem to need sufficient markups to generate the necessary private information to allocate financial funds efficiently.
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Ten Years after Accession: State Aid in Eastern Europe
Jens Hölscher, Nicole Nulsch, Johannes Stephan
European State Aid Law Quarterly,
No. 2,
2014
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In the early phase of transition that started with the 1990s, Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) have pursued far-reaching vertical and individual industrial policy with a focus on privatisation and restructuring of traditional industries. Foreign investment from the West and the facilitation of the development of a market economy also involved massive injections of State support. With their accession to the European Union (EU), levels and forms of State aid came under critical review by the European Commission. Now that a first decade has passed since the first Eastern enlargement in 2004, this inquiry investigates how State aid policy in the CEECs has developed during the last...
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Strategien multinationaler Unternehmen in Ostmitteleuropa - Perspektiven aus der Praxis
Jutta Günther, Istvan Fekete
Willkommene Investoren oder nationaler Ausverkauf? Ausländische Direktinvestitionen in Ostmitteleuropa im 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurter Studien zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte Ostmitteleuropas, Bd. 11,
2006
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Business Cycle Volatility in Germany
Claudia M. Buch, J. Doepke, C. Pierdzioch
German Economic Review,
2004
Abstract
Stylized facts suggest that output volatility in OECD countries has declined in recent years. The causes and the nature of this decline have so far been analyzed mainly for the United States. In this paper, we analyze whether structural changes in output volatility in Germany can be detected. We report evidence that output volatility has declined in Germany. It is difficult to answer the question whether this decline in output volatility reflects good economic and monetary policy or merely ‘good luck’.
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Risiko-Analyse im Unternehmen erfolgreich umsetzen
Ulrich Blum, Werner Gleißner
Rating aktuell,
No. 6,
2005
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Buchbesprechung - Werner Meske (Hrsg.), From System Trans-formation to European Integration. Science and Technology in Central and Eastern Europe at the Beginnung of the 21st Century. Lit Verlag: Münster 2004
Jutta Günther
Science and Public Policy, Vol. 32, Nr. 4,
2005
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What if Financial Markets were inefficient?
Marian Berneburg
Globale Wirtschaft - nationale Verantwortung: Wege aus dem Druckkessel,
2005
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The National German Innovation System - its Development in Different Governmental and Territorial Structures
Hariolf Grupp, Iciar Dominguez Lacasa, Monika Friedrich-Nishio
Economics, Evolution and the State: The Governance of Complexity,
2005
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Korruption und Kapitalverkehrskontrollen
Makram El-Shagi
Aspekte der internationalen Ökonomie – Festschrift für Jürgen Schröder zum 65. Geburtstag,
2005
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Innovation and growth in Germany over the past 150 years
Hariolf Grupp, Iciar Dominguez Lacasa, Monika Friedrich-Nishio
Entrepreneurship, the new economy and public policy: Schumpeterian perspectives,
2005
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