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Is there a future for small hospitals in Germany?
Augurzky, Boris; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2010
We analyse the financial performance of small German hospitals based on balance sheet data of about 1,000 hospitals in 2007. Measures of financial performance are the earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) and the probability of default (PD). We find that, on...
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Ownership and financial performance in the German hospital sector
Augurzky, Boris; Engel, Dirk; Schmidt, Christoph M.; … - 2009
This paper considers the role of ownership form for the financial performance of German acute care hospitals and its development over time. We measure financial performance by a hospital-specific yearly probability of default (PD). Using a panel of hospital data, our models allow for state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861443
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Supervisory board qualification of German banks legal standards and survey evidence
Körner, Tobias; Müller, Oliver; Paul, Stephan; … - 2013
. Furthermore, some of these fi ndings strongly depend on the bank’s legal form, its size and business model, suggesting that both …
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Preferences over bank and family loans in rural Rwanda
Peters, Jörg; Schoofs, Annekathrin; Sievert, Maximiliane - 2015
We study borrowers’ preferences over bank and family loans based on field work undertaken in rural Rwanda. We randomly … assigned willingness-to-pay questions for a hypothetical loan offer either by a bank or by a family member to a sample of 480 …
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Improving the forecasts of European regional banks' profitability with machine learning algorithms
Haskamp, Ulrich - 2017
a bank and the banking sector overall. We use a large data set of bank-level balance sheet items and regional economic … quantitativen Indikator für den Zustand einer Bank beziehungsweise für den gesamten Bankensektor dar. Wir nutzen eine große Zahl von …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700721
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Volatility patterns of CDS, bond and stock markets before and during the financial crisis : evidence from major financial institutions
Belke, Ansgar; Gokus, Christian - 2011
This study is motivated by the development of credit-related instruments and signals of stock price movements of large banks during the recent financial crisis. What is common to most of the empirical studies in this field is that they concentrate on modeling the conditional mean. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008935244
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Regional bank efficiency and its effect on regional growth in “normal” and “bad” times
Belke, Ansgar; Haskamp, Ulrich; Setzer, Ralph - 2015
this purpose, we measure the intermediation quality of a bank by estimating its profit and cost efficiency while taking the … “normal” and in “bad” times. These results provide evidence to the importance of swiftly restoring bank protability in euro … area crisis countries through addressing high non-performing loans ratios and decisive actions on bank recapitalization. …
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How do fair value measurements of financial instruments affect investments in banks?
Bergheim, Ralf; Ernstberger, Jürgen; Roos, Michael W. M. - 2014
nonprofessional investors to invest in a bank’s shares. Specifically, we assess how investors respond to variations in net income …-professioneller Investoren beeinflusst. Dabei wird die Entscheidung, in Aktien einer Bank zu investieren, in Reaktion auf verschieden hohe … Bewertungsänderungen der Aktiva Position „Wertpapiere“ der Bank untersucht. Es erfolgt des Weiteren eine differenzierte Betrachtung der …
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Finance access of SMEs : what role for the ECB?
Belke, Ansgar - 2013
Bank. … signifikant höhere Sollzinsen als ihre Wettbewerber im Kern der Eurozone (z.B. Deutschland, Frankreich). Und diese Divergenz wird …
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Wealth and asset holdings of immigrants in Germany
Sinning, Mathias - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004889420