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Do Banks Benefit from Internationalization? Revisiting the Market Power-Risk Nexus
Buch, Claudia M. - 2016
Recent developments on international financial markets have called the benefits of bank globalization into question … necessarily made banks less risky. Yet, surprisingly little is known about the actual link between bank internationalization, bank … countries tends to increase bank risk. Fourth, the impact of internationalization differs across banks from different banking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989242
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Capital Market Integration in Euroland - The Role of Banks
Buch, Claudia M. - 1999
enhances the incentives of banks to expand within Euroland. Yet, while the currency bias in bank portfolios will be eliminated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260522
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Why Do Banks Go Abroad? - Evidence from German Data
Buch, Claudia M. - 1999
This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign activities of German banks. We use regionally disaggregated panel data for the years 1981?98 and distinguish foreign direct investment from total foreign assets of domestic banks, of their foreign branches and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260539
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Cross-Border Bank Mergers: What Lures the Rare Animal?
DeLong, Gayle L.; Buch, Claudia M. - 2001
,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse the determinants of international bank mergers. We test the extent to … regulated environments are less likely to be the targets of international bank mergers. Hence, the lifting of regulations can … spur growth in cross-border bank mergers. Also, mergers tend to be less frequent if information costs are high. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260608
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What Determines Maturity? An Analysis for Foreign Assets of German Commercial Banks
Buch, Claudia M. - 2000
Surges and reversals of short-term foreign liabilities are often held responsible for instabilities in international financial markets. Yet, empirical evidence on the factors determining the maturity of capital flows is scant. This paper analyzes the determinants of foreign assets of German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260632
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Domestic and Foreign Banks in Germany: Do They Differ?
Buch, Claudia M.; Golder, Stefan M. - 2000
The German banking market is notorious for its low degree of market penetration by foreign financial institutions, suggesting that markets serviced by domestic and foreign banks are segmented. This paper employs a number of tests to determine whether activities of domestic and foreign banks are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260426
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Shocks at large banksand banking sector distress:the Banking Granular Residual
Blank, Sven; Buch, Claudia M.; Neugebauer, Katja - Volkswirtschaftliches Forschungszentrum <Frankfurt, Main> - 2009
Size effects matter in banking. Typically, banking systems are dominated by a smallnumber of large players who are also active in a large range of countries and marketsegments. At the same time, there exist small and often regionally-focused financialinstitutions. This holds also for the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866276
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Domestic and foreign banks in Germany : do they differ?
Buch, Claudia M.; Golder, Stefan M. - 2000
The German banking market is notorious for its low degree of market penetration by foreign financial institutions, suggesting that markets serviced by domestic and foreign banks are segmented. This paper employs a number of tests to determine whether activities of domestic and foreign banks are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472232
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Capital market integration in Euroland : the role of banks
Buch, Claudia M. - 1999
enhances the incentives of banks to expand within Euroland. Yet, while the currency bias in bank portfolios will be eliminated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475635
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Why do banks go abroad? : evidence from German data
Buch, Claudia M. - 1999
This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign activities of German banks. We use regionally disaggregated panel data for the years 1981-98 and distinguish foreign direct investment from total foreign assets of domestic banks, of their foreign branches and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475868