companies it is less likely that the chairperson of the supervisory board is a former executive of the same bank. Over time …

nationwide, regarding different outreach indicators. At the federal state level, bank outreach shows South-North and West …-East gaps. Combining regional and bank data at the district level for 2005, we examine the determinants of geographic and … share of elder people and bank size in a region. Because of their public mission to serve all regions, public savings banks …

Strong lending relationships between banks and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in the bank … long-term bank-customer relationships. The present paper takes a new look by considering also interactional variables which …

or financial companies. After an overview on the role of banks in bank-based versus market-based financial systems, and …