We investigate the determinants of European banking market integration with a focus on the potentially limiting role of cultural and political factors. Employing a unique data set of European cross-border loans and deposits, the study uses various gravity models that are augmented by societal...

Asymmetrische Anpassung von Geschäftsbankenzinsen im Eurogebiet: Eine empirische Analyse des Zins-Pass-Through Unsere Studie erweitert die traditionelle Literatur des Zins-Pass-Through durch die Berücksichtigung von Kointegrationsbeziehungen und der korrespondierenden...

The surge in cross-border banking prior to the 2007 / 08 global financial crisis took place not only in the interbank market but also in the retail market, e.g. between banks and their private customers abroad. Cross-border retail activities of banks now account for a substantial share of total...

We examine the impact of the existence on an explicit deposit insurance (DI) scheme and its design features on bilateral cross-border deposits (CBD) in a gravity model setting. We find that both the absolute quality of a country's DI and its relative quality vis-à-vis other countries' DI...

This paper investigates the state, development and drivers of banking market integration in the member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) by employing interest rate data. We first conduct a principal component analysis and find evidence for both increasing monetary...

This study investigates the current state of eurozone banking market integration by applying price convergence and cointegration measures to mortgage and short-term corporate loan rates. These two measures of integration often lead to contradicting conclusions and are therefore comparatively...

This study aims at unifying the empirical research on the financial part of the monetary transmission process in the Eurozone between 1993 and 2002. After endogenously determining structural breaks, we select an optimal pass-through model for a series of national retail interest rates for each...