Reliable information on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is rare and costly for financial intermediaries. Therefore relationship banking is often considered as the appropriate lending technique. In this paper we offer a theoretical model to analyze relationship banking and the pricing...

<title>Abstract</title> This study focuses on gender-specific determinants of remittances in Germany. The conceptual approach considers gender roles and naturalization to be crucial in the immigrant's decision to remit. For the empirical investigation, the authors use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel...

Due to the financial crises from 2008 to 2012, unconventional monetary policy caused an environment of record low interest rates around the world. Maintaining the low interest rate policy might be reasonable for the ECB in the short run in order to fight the fragmentation of the financial market...

After the collapse in the early transition years, saving rates in Eastern European EU-accession countries have recovered strongly. But is private saving in these countries now driven by the same forces as in the EU? A GMM estimator is applied to analyze the determinants of private saving in both...

Offensichtlich ist die Wirtschaftskrise in Japan noch nicht überwunden. Nach der jüngsten Revision der volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnung ist das Bruttoinlandsprodukt im dritten Quartal 2000 deutlich geschrumpft. Auch Informationen über die aktuelle Entwicklung lassen keine Anzeichen einer...