There exist a vast number of studies on the banking industry. However, the insurance industry remains relatively … unexplored. Increasingly, Austrian insurance institutions are becoming important as financial intermediaries in the domestic … structure, conduct and performance (SCP) approach to a sample of 52 Austrian insurance firms. The main finding is that the …

measured by the Z-score technique while controlling for macroeconomic, bank-specific, regulatory, and institutional factors …

Sector has changed dramatically in recent years. On 1990s, our country has experienced deregulation, foreign bank penetration …

A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … indeed increases bank efficiency. Second, building on these results, we examine the relation between the Boone indicator … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel. …

markets. The analysis shows that swap lines by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) had a positive impact on bank stocks in Central … and Eastern Europe. It then highlights the importance of individual bank characteristics in identifying the impact of swap … lines on bank stocks. Bank-level evidence suggests that stock prices of local and less-well capitalized banks as well as …

Zeitraum 1995 bis 1999 empirisch der Einfluss der Marktstruktur auf die allgemeine Innovationsaktivität sowie speziell jene im …