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Recovery determinants of distressed banks : regulators, market discipline, or the environment?

Kick, Thomas; Koetter, Michael; Poghosyan, Tigran - 2010

affect the likelihood and the timing of bank recovery. Severe regulatory measures increase both the likelihood of recovery … conditions also matter for bank recovery. Hence, concerted micro- and macro-prudential policies are key to facilitate distressed … bank recovery. -- Bank distress ; capital support ; regulation ; recovery …

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Crises, rescues, and policy transmission through international banks

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Koetter, Michael - 2011

The World Financial Crisis has shaken the fundamentals of international banking and triggered a downward spiral of asset prices. To prevent a further meltdown of markets, governments have intervened massively through rescues measures aimed at recapitalizing banks and through liquidity support....

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Finance and growth in a bank-based economy : is it quantity or quality that matters?

Koetter, Michael (contributor); Wedow, Michael (contributor) - 2006

With this paper we seek to contribute to the literature on the relation between finance and growth. We argue that most studies in the field fail to measure the quality of financial intermediation but rather resort to using proxies on the size of financial systems. Moreover, cross-country...

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The cost efficiency of German banks : a comparison of SFA and DEA

Fiorentino, Elisabetta (contributor); … - 2006

parametric methods. Thus, the implicit assumption of serial independence of bank production in most methods has an important …

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The effects of privatization and consolidation on bank productivity : comparative evidence from Italy and Germany

Fiorentino, Elisabetta; Vincenzo, Alessio De; Heid, Frank; … - 2009

The Italian and German banking systems shared similar characteristics early in the 1990s but have evolved in different directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state-owned savings banks. Contemporaneously, banks in both...

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The implications of latent technology regimes for competition and efficiency in banking

Koetter, Michael (contributor); … - 2008

. Wir ermitteln die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Gruppenzugehörigkeit (GZW) je Bank in Abhängigkeit von sechs individuellen …

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The quality of banking and regional growth

Hasan, Iftekhar (contributor); Koetter, Michael (contributor) - 2007

We test whether output growth in European economic agglomeration regions depends on financial development. To this end we suggest a relative measure of the quality of financial institutions rather than the usual quantity proxy of financial development. In order to measure the quality of...

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Accounting for distress in bank mergers

Koetter, Michael; Bos, Jaap W. B.; Heid, Frank; Kool, … - 2005

The inability of most bank merger studies to control for hidden bailouts may lead to biased results. In this study, we … employ a unique data set of approximately 1,000 mergers to analyze the determinants of bank mergers. We use data on the …

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Evaluating the German bank merger wave

Koetter, Michael (contributor) - 2005

German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However, the success of bank mergers remains a continuous …

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Inefficient or just different? : Effects of heterogeneity on bank efficiency scores

Bos, Jaap W. B.; Heid, Frank; Koetter, Michael; Kolari, … - 2005

We motivate the formulation of market equilibria as a mixed complementarity problem (MCP) in order to bridge the gap between bottom-up energy system models and top-down general equilibrium models for energy policy analysis. Our objective is primarily pedagogic. We first lay out that the MCP...

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