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The German banking market is notorious for its low degree of market penetration by foreign financial institutions …
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If the technological revolution which has taken place over the past decades has lowered information costs and if information costs increase in distance, distance should - ceteris paribus - become less important in determining international bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and...
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analyzes the implications of the euro for cross-border banking activities. A portfolio model is used which captures the role of …
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign activities of German banks. We use regionally disaggregated panel data for the years 1981-98 and distinguish foreign direct investment from total foreign assets of domestic banks, of their foreign branches and their...
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Although domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the financial services industry have increased steadily over the past two decades, international M&As were relatively rare until recently. This paper uses a novel dataset of over 2,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse...
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Europe, bank finance plays a relatively important role, and efforts have been made at creating a level playing field for … financial institutions. This paper reviews the stylized facts of the integration of European banking markets and the changing … nature of cross-border banking. Although the openness of financial systems has increased, bilateral financial linkages among …
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general and banking markets in particular show a greater degree of segmentation than national financial markets as a result of …
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