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Research grants, sources of ideas and the effects on academic research

Hottenrott, Hanna; Lawson, Cornelia - 2012

Based on a sample of research units in science and engineering at German universities, this study reports survey evidence showing that research grants impact research content. Research units that receive funds from industry are more likely to source ideas from the private sector. The higher the...

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Incentive Problems in Banking Supervision: The European Case

Schüler, Martin - 2003

This paper discusses the incentive conflicts that arise in banking supervision in the EU in a principal-agent framework, where the regulator is the agent and the taxpayers is the principal. The regulatory agent in addition to maintaining financial stability (the objective of the principal) may...

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How Do Banks Determine Capital? Empirical Evidence for Germany

Weber, Martin; Kleff, Volker - 2003

This paper examines how capital is determined by German banks. We analyse whether the determinants found in the previous empirical literature hold for the special German banking sector with its three characteristic banking groups of savings banks, cooperative banks and other banks. On the basis...

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Merger Control as Barrier to EU Banking Market Integration

Koehler, Matthias - 2007

In 2005, the President of the Bank of Italy blocked the cross-border acquisition of two Italian banks for ?prudential … strength of the supervisory review process of bank M&A. The main source of information to construct these indices is a …

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The Determinants of Capital Structure: Some Evidence from Banks

Heider, Florian; Gropp, Reint E. - 2008

bank. The results suggest that capital requirements may only be of second-order importance for banks? capital structures …

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The threat of systemic risk in banking: evidence for Europe

Schüler, Martin - 2002

on a European level. Following De Nicolo and Kwast (2001), mean rolling-window correlations between bank stock returns …

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Systemic Risk in European Banking: Evidence from Bivariate GARCH Models

Schüler, Martin; Schröder, Michael - 2003

conditional correlations between European bank stock indices. These correlations are used as an indication for the …

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A New Metric for Banking Integration in Europe

Gropp, Reint E.; Kashyap, Anil K. - 2008

taking place for retail banking. Data on cross-border retail bank flows, cross-border bank mergers and the law of one price … reveal no evidence of integration in retail banking. This paper shows that the previous tests of bank integration are weak in … that they are not based on an equilibrium concept and are neither necessary nor sufficient statistics for bank integration …

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Blockholdings and Corporate Governance in the EU Banking Sector

Köhler, Matthias - 2008

Ownership structures widely differ across the EU. While large blockholdings dominate in the banking sector in Continental Europe, ownership is widely dispersed in the United Kingdom. These differences have consequences for corporate governance in the EU banking sector. This paper analyzes the...

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Blockholdings and corporate governance in the EU banking sector

Köhler, Matthias - 2009

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