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Bank Market Power, Factor Reallocation, and Aggregate Growth
Inklaar, Robert; Koetter, Michael; Noth, Felix - 2015
-sized enterprises (SMEs), this study seeks to identify the effect of bank market power on aggregate growth components. We test for a pre …-crisis sample whether bank market power spurs or hinders the reallocation of resources across informationally opaque firms … in Germany. The results show that bank markups spur aggregate SME growth, primarily through technical change and the …
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The Quality of Banking and Regional Growth
Hasan, Iftekhar - 2016
We test whether output growth in European economic agglomeration regions depends on financial development. To this end we suggest a relative measure of the quality of financial institutions rather than the usual quantity proxy of financial development. In order to measure the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989291
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Finance and Growth in a Bank-Based Economy : Is it Quantity or Quality that Matters?
Koetter, Michael - 2016
With this paper we seek to contribute to the literature on the relation between finance and growth. We argue that most studies in the field fail to measure the quality of financial intermediation but rather resort to using proxies on the size of financial systems. Moreover, cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989310
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Inefficient or Just Different? Effects of Heterogeneity on Bank Efficiency Scores
Bos, Jaap W.B. - 2016
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Evaluating the German Bank Merger Wave
Koetter, Michael - 2016
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Accounting for Distress in Bank Mergers
Koetter, Michael - 2016
The inability of most bank merger studies to control for hidden bailouts may …
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Accounting for distress in bank mergers
Koetter, Michael; Bos, Jaap W. B.; Heid, Frank; Kool, … - 2005
The inability of most bank merger studies to control for hidden bailouts may lead to biased results. In this study, we … employ a unique data set of approximately 1,000 mergers to analyze the determinants of bank mergers. We use data on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295902
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Evaluating the German bank merger wave
Koetter, Michael - 2005
German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However, the success of bank mergers remains a continuous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295905
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Inefficient or just different? Effects of heterogeneity on bank efficiency scores
Bos, Jaap W. B.; Heid, Frank; Koetter, Michael; Kolari, … - 2005
different banks as being best or worst performers. Our main conclusion is that efficiency studies in general and bank efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295908
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Finance and growth in a bank-based economy: is it quantity or quality that matters?
Koetter, Michael; Wedow, Michael - 2006
With this paper we seek to contribute to the literature on the relation between finance and growth. We argue that most studies in the field fail to measure the quality of financial intermediation but rather resort to using proxies on the size of financial systems. Moreover, cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295910