This paper provides an empirical examination of the regional banking structures in China and their effects on entrepreneurial activity. Using a panel of 27 provinces and four directly controlled municipalities from 1997 through 2008, we find that the presence of large banking institutions...

Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit liegt in der Identifikation von Public Corporate Governance-Steuerungsdimensionen und der entsprechenden Ausgestaltungsvarianten für Kantonalbanken im Spannungsfeld zwischen ökonomischer und politischer Steuerung aus Sicht der Kantone als Allein- oder...

The paper uses a panel of more than 1m German firms over 2010-2016, to provide the first firm-bank level evidence of local crowding out for a developed economy characterized by low interest rates and fiscal austerity. Our mechanism relies on two structural features of Germany's banking...

The possibility of creating a state bank has received much recent attention in the United States. In 2021, six states introduced legislation to create a state bank; in 2019, similar legislation was enacted in California for municipal banks. This paper develops a framework to evaluate state...