restrictions upon foreign bank entry and foreign ownership have been affectively abolished. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA … banks have used size as a barrier to entry to the new entrants in the post-deregulation period. Furthermore, bank efficiency … seems to have increased post-deregulation and the competition resulting from diversity in bank types was important to prompt …

Bank intermediated finance has been cited frequently as the preferred means for channeling funds from savers to firms … assertions about the considerable power of German banks and the advantages of a bank relation, empirical support is mixed. With a … unique dataset and a focus on the fragility/sturdiness of inferences, this paper evaluates German bank influence in terms of …

banks to form alliances with fintechs. Furthermore, we analyze whether such bank-fintech alliances affect the market … Officer. We evidence that markets react more strongly if digital banks rather than traditional banks announce a bank …-fintech alliance. Finally, we find that alliances are most often characterized by a product-related collaboration between the bank and …

investment, increase total factor productivity, and experience positive cumulative abnormal returns. The bank debt and investment …