Buch, Claudia M.; Golder, Stefan M. - In: Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review 53 (2000) 213, pp. 107-133
) disintermediation compared to, for instance, the United States. This could be attributed to the fact that universal banking in Germany … creates implicit barriers to entry. Yet, regulatory and informational differences which are unrelated to universal banking … could be responsible for the observed difference. This paper provides a stylized theoretical model of the banking industry …