) and higher market concentration in the banking sector had a positive effect on bank profitability, while, surprisingly … as disintermediation, internationalization and privatization, on the profitability of banks. Several proxies based on … bank balance sheet data at the micro level as well as macroeconomic variables are used to capture these changes. The case …

banking. Using cross-sectional data on publicly traded, highest-level U.S. bank holding companies, we find empirical evidence …

regulation (Basel I). Using bank-level panel data from Norway, important hypotheses concerning the determination of the buffer …

structure decisions in family firms from Anglo-Saxon countries. We provide new evidence for a bank-based economy. In this sense …, Germany provides a very fruitful research environment as it (i) traditionally has a bank-based financial system and (ii …