Reliable information on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is rare and costly for financial intermediaries. Therefore relationship banking is often considered as the appropriate lending technique. In this paper we offer a theoretical model to analyze relationship banking and the pricing...

The continued economic crisis has become a major test for the labour markets of individual member states. Labour mobility within the European Union has the potential to help to reduce labour market pressures and ease economic imbalances. However, a long-term loss of working age population can be...

The Eastern enlargement of the EU is accompanied by a substantial increase in trade, capital movements and migration between the incumbent and the new member states. This article examines the effects of these trade and factor flows on Germany and United Kingdom using a CGE model which considers...

This paper examines the macroeconomic consequences of the diversion of migration flows away from Germany towards the UK in the course of the EU's Eastern Enlargement. The EU has agreed transitional periods for the free movement of workers with the new member states from Central and Eastern...

Die Gruppe der Landesbanken stellt sich heute wie auch in den letzten zehn Jahren außerordentlich heterogen dar. Gemeinsam ist den Landesbanken jedoch die Suche nach einem trag- und zukunftsfähigem Geschäftsmodell. Vielfach wird in der Konsolidierung ein Weg gesehen. Dies, aber auch ein...