This article analyzes 336 German venture capital transactions between 1990 to 2005 and seeks to determine why selected financial securities differ across deals. We find that a broad array of financial instruments is used covering straight equity, mezzanine and debt like securities. Based on the...

Banks face a ‘behavioralization’ of their balance sheets since deposit funding increasingly consists of non-maturing deposits with uncertain cash flows exposing them to asset liability (ALM) risk. Thus, this study examines the behavior of banks’ retail customers regarding non-maturing...

We survey the recent literature on corporate diversification. How does corporate diversification influence firm value? Does it create or destroy value? Until the beginning of this century, the predominant thinking among researchers and practitioners was that corporate diversification leads to an...

We examine the saving behavior of banks retail customers. Our unique dataset comprises the contract and cash flow information for approximately 2.2 million individual contracts from 1991 to 2010. We find that contractual rewards, i.e., qualified interest payments, and government subsidies,...

This paper provides new evidence that taxes affect capital structure choice, using a unique and comprehensive panel data set which covers 86,173 German non-financial firms over the years 1973-2008. Following the Graham methodology to simulate marginal tax rates, we find a statistically and...

This article examines the loan rate-setting behavior of German banks for a large variety of retail and corporate loan products. We find that a bank's operational efficiency is priced in bank loan rates and alters interest-setting behavior. Specifically, we establish that a higher degree of...

Die Finanzmarktkrise hat Schwächen in der Bankenaufsicht deutlich werden lassen. Der Artikel befasst sich mit vier Ansatzpunkten für eine Weiterentwicklung der Bankenaufsicht: Benötigt wird eine stärker an Prinzipien orientierte Bankenaufsicht anstatt starrer Regeln für die...

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