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In recent years, the German banking sector has overcome major challenges such as the global financial crisis and the European debt crisis. This paper analyses a recent development as a particular determinant of the future outlook for the German banking sector. Interest rates are at historically...
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profitability of German banks and their capacity to lend. With a NSFR-model that is partially calibrated against reported NSFRs, we … minimum standard is unlikely to exhibit adverse consequences for credit supply and bank profitability. …
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profitability and stability is correlated with the share of their fee and commission income. Notably, we examine whether the effect … on bank profitability differs depending on the type of fee and commission income. Our results support the view that … securities business, also have a higher profitability. The Z-score also correlates positively with the share of securities …
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German banks, this paper explores how regionally less diversified banks in Germany adjusted their loan loss provisioning … following the severe summer flood of 2013, which affected widespread regions mostly in Eastern Germany. The analysis uses a … some extent by retail mortgage loans. While results suggest that the profitability of banks is impacted by additional …
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A set-aside restricts participation in procurement contests to targeted firms. Despite being widely used, its effects on actual competition and contract outcomes are ambiguous. We pool a decade of US federal procurement data to shed light on this empirical question using a two-stage approach. To...
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This study presents a preliminary estimate of user costs of forestland conversion for agricultural purposes for the period 1970-80 in Brazil. In this initial version, only loss in potential sustainable wood output is considered. However, the analytical framework adopted here can be extended to...
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This paper focuses on the role of economic factors inducing deforestation in Brazil and thereby threatening biodiversity, giving particular attention to the exploitation pattern of forest resources in Brazil. Some economic factors cannot be easily reverted since reversion would require long-term...
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