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Corporate governance and current regulation in the German banking sector : an overview and assessment
Köhler, Matthias - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919056
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An information economics perspective on main bank relationships and firm R&D
Höwer, Daniel; Schmidt, Tobias; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2011
distributed between inventors and investors. As a result, bank lending for firm R&D has been rare. However, firms can signal the … potential to alter the risk assessment of the firm’s main bank. Additionally, we explore heterogeneities in these risk … assessments arising from the industry level and the main bank’s portfolio. We test our theoretical predictions for a sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009270085
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Do we need a separate banking system? : an assessment
Lang, Gunnar; Schröder, Michael - 2013
Motivated by the current discussion on different separate banking systems, we provide an overview of the different systems, question them and outline their effect on systemic stability and the German banking sector. The results show that the various separate banking systems only play a minor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721401
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The determinants of capital structure : some evidence from banks
Gropp, Reint (contributor); Heider, Florian (contributor) - 2008
bank. The results suggest that capital requirements may only be of second-order importance for banks' capital structures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003671222
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Do direct R&D subsidies lead to the monopolization of R&D in the economy?
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper explores the impact of R&D subsidies on the concentration of R&D in an economy. First, governments are often criticized of subsidizing predominantly larger firms and thus contribute to persistence of leadership in markets and higher barriers to entry, and, hence, reduced competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008701446
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The discontent cartel member and cartel collapse : the case of the German cement cartel
Harrington, Joseph Emmett; Hüschelrath, Kai; … - 2014
We hypothesize a particular source of cartel instability and explore its relevance to understanding cartel dynamics. The cartel instability is rooted in the observation that, upon cartel formation, the relative positions of firms are often fixed which may lead some growthconscious members to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424815
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Aufsichtsratsverflechtungen und ihr Einfluss auf die Vorstandsbezüge von DAX-Unternehmen
Entorf, Horst; Gattung, Florian; Möbert, Jochen; … - 2008
Der vorliegende Aufsatz untersucht den Einfluss von Aufsichtsratsvernetzungen auf die Entwicklung der Vorstandsbezüge von DAX-Unternehmen. Die kombinierte Anwendung von Methoden der sozialen Netzwerkanalyse und der Panelökonometrie erleichtert die Erfassung der Struktur der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003721825
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A test of the quality of concentration indices
Heger, Diana (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2008
Theory predicts a positive relationship between market concentration and profitability in most scenarios. In empirical work, however, this relation is frequently not found or only a weak connection is observed. We compare the performance of concentration and market share variables, which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751796
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From soft and hard-nosed bankers : bank lending strategies and the survival of financially distressed firms
Höwer, Daniel - 2009
are even larger for cooperative banks than for public banks. -- financially distressed firms ; bank lending ; public banks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003893124
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The impact of a stock market downturn on corporate financing activities in Germany
Meitner, Matthias (contributor);  … - 2005
reveals no major importance of the bank balance sheet channel for the relationship between stock market volatility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003268547