On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...

Foreword (Sabine Mauderer, Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank) -- Introduction (Ursula Schipper, Jens Walter, Robert Kirchner) -- Part I: 100 Years Balance of Payments in Germany: The German Balance of Payments from an Analytical Perspective – Milestones Through History (Axel Jochem,...

Social capital theory predicts individuals establish social ties based on homophily, i.e., affinities for similar others. We exploit a unique sample to analyze how similarities and social ties affect career outcomes in banking based on age, education, gender, and employment history to examine if...