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Fear, deposit insurance schemes, and deposit reallocation in the German banking system
Fecht, Falko; Thum, Stefan; Weber, Patrick - 2019
Recent regulatory initiatives such as the European Deposit Insurance Scheme propose a change in the coverage and backing of deposit insurances. An assessment of these proposals requires a thorough understanding of what drives depositors' withdrawal decisions. We show that Google searches for...
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Market discipline across bank governance models : empirical evidence from German depositors
Arnold, Eva; Größl, Ingrid; Koziol, Philipp - 2015
German savers are renowned for preferring safe, long-term investments, thus providing patient capital, with bank deposits playing an important role. Using a comprehensive data set for the German banking sector, we examine whether German depositors are really that patient, abstaining from any...
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Herding of institutional traders : new evidence from daily data
Kremer, Stephanie - 2010
This paper sheds new light on herding of institutional investors by using a unique database that identifies every … transaction made by financial institutions in the German stock market. First, the analysis reveals that herding behavior of … previous studies overestimate herding. Third, our results suggest that herding by large financial institutions mainly results …
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Contagious herding and endogenous network formation in financial networks
Georg, Co-Pierre - 2014
When banks choose similar investment strategies, the financial system becomes vulnerable to common shocks. Banks decide about their investment strategy ex-ante based on a private belief about the state of the world and a social belief formed from observing the actions of peers. When the social...
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From financial to real economic crisis : evidence from individual firm-bank relationships in Germany
Dwenger, Nadja; Fossen, Frank M.; Simmler, Martin - 2015 - First version: February 14, 2015, This version: September 25, 2015
What began as a financial crisis in the United States in 2007-2008 quickly evolved into a massive crisis of the global real economy. We investigate the importance of the bank lending and firm borrowing channel in the international transmission of bank distress to the real economy - in...
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Cyclical investment behavior across financial institutions
Timmer, Yannick - 2016
investor base as well as the balance sheets of both levered and non-levered investors. …
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Financial development, growth and equity in Brazil
Pinheiro, Armando Castelar; Bonelli, Régis - 2015
Financial markets help to foster growth and productivity through their role in mobilizing savings to finance investment and production, selecting and monitoring investment projects, diversifying risks, and allowing investment and production to be carried out in the most productive scale and time...
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Cyclicality of SME lending and government involvement in banks
Behr, Patrick; Foos, Daniel; Norden, Lars - 2015
Recent regulatory efforts aim at lowering the cyclicality of bank lending because of its potential detrimental effects on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs. without a public mandate, controlling for location, size, loan...
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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : an experiment on voluntary payments, competition, and reputation in markets for expert services
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2017
Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...
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An analysis of non-traditional activities at German savings banks : does the type of fee and commission income matter?
Köhler, Matthias - 2018
In this paper, we use a fully anonymized dataset provided by the German Savings Banks Association (DSGV) to analyse which savings banks have expanded into fee-producing activities more quickly. In addition, we investigate whether their profitability and stability is correlated with the share of...
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