bank. The results suggest that capital requirements may only be of second-order importance for banks' capital structures …

This paper gives an overview over corporate governance and banking regulation in Germany. Particular attention is put …, some of the recommendations and suggestions made to improve corporate governance in Germany are not legally binding even … for stock corporations. Recent empirical evidence, moreover, suggests that bank shareholders pushed for greater risk …

dataset on the transparency on merger control in the EU banking sector, we estimate the probability that a bank is taken over … sector. The results indicate that a bank is systematically more likely to be taken over by foreign credit institutions if the … merger control lacks transparency. This is in line with the hypothesis that governments may block crossborder bank merger …

market. Based on a dataset on the transparency on the supervisory review process of bank mergers in the EU, I estimate the … probability that a bank is taken over as a function of bank and country characteristics and the transparency of merger control …

adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland and Italy. Furthermore, a systematic overview on fiscal aspects of …

consequently consumption dampening accompanied by beggar-thy-neighbour effects, harming Germany’s trade partners. We check up on …) are only partially driven by the reforms. However, we do not find that the reforms contribute to Germany’s trade surplus …