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The impact of competition on bank orientation and specialization : the impact of competition on bank orientation
Degryse, Hans; Ongena, Steven - 2004
How do banks react to increased interbank competition? Recent banking theory offers conflicting predictions about the … impact of competition on bank orientation - i.e., the choice of relationship based versus transactional banking - and bank … industry specialization. We empirically investigate the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402722
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Subprime crisis and board (in-)competence : private vs. public banks in Germany
Hau, Harald; Thum, Marcel - 2009
and study if the bank losses can be traced to the quality of bank governance. For this purpose, we examine the … are then related directly to the magnitude of bank losses in the recent financial crisis. Our data confirms that … supervisory board (in-)competence in finance is related to losses in the financial crisis. Improved bank governance is therefore a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850179
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Quality differentiation and optimal pricing strategy in multi-sided markets
Kim, Soo Jin; Pal, Pallavi - 2021
This paper analyzes the generalized quality differentiation model in multi-sided markets with positive externalities, which leads to new insights into the optimal pricing structure of the firm. We find that quality differentiation for users on one side affects not only the side involving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612674
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Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility
Planer-Friedrich, Lisa; Sahm, Marco - 2017 - This version: May 29, 2017
We examine the strategic use of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in imperfectly competitive markets. The level of CSR determines the weight a firm puts on consumer surplus in its objective function before it decides upon supply. First, we consider symmetric Cournot competition and show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659485
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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - 2009
This study is framed against the increasingly stringent environmental demands on the pulp and paper industry since the late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by...
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Bank behavior and the cost channel of monetary transmission
Hülsewig, Oliver (contributor); Mayer, Eric (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377604
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Creditor passivity : the effects of bank competition and institutions on the strategic use of bankruptcy filings
Hainz, Christa (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624944
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Pooling, tranching and credit expansion
Bougheas, Spiros P. - 2012
Traditionally banks have used securitization for expanding credit and thus their profitability. It has been well documented that, at least before the 2008 crisis, many banks were keeping a high proportion of the securities that they created on their own balance-sheets. Those securities retained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570572
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On the incidence of a financial transactions tax in a model with fire sales
Bierbrauer, Felix - 2012
This paper studies the impact of a financial transactions tax on a financial market where financial institutions trade with each other. Assets are marked to the market and financial institutions with negative equity are forced out of business. There are two main results: First, if all banks have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571254
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The effect of employment protection on worker effort : a comparison of absenteeism during and after probation
Ichino, Andrea; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2001
.Our analysis is based on weekly observations for the 858 white collar workers hired by a large Italian bank between January 1993 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400883