such cooperative practices. There are two adjacent markets with one savings or cooperative bank being focused on each one … and one private commercial bank serving both. We find that abolishing regional demarcation indeed increases total loan … shields the private commercial bank from aggressive competition by these banks. …

rents already. Thus our results suggest that in the bank-dominated financial system of Germany, in which banks intensely …

multiple technology regimes and group membership probabilities. The latter are conditioned on six bank traits of German banks …. Wir ermitteln die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Gruppenzugehörigkeit (GZW) je Bank in Abhängigkeit von sechs individuellen …

We model the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, reserve holdings and aggregate liquidity. A merger changes the … distribution of bank sizes and aggregate liquidity needs. Mergers among large banks tend to increase aggregate liquidity needs and … thus the public provision of liquidity through monetary operations of the central bank. …

taking place for retail banking. Data on cross-border retail bank flows, cross-border bank mergers and the law of one price … reveal no evidence of integration in retail banking. This paper shows that the previous tests of bank integration are weak in … that they are not based on an equilibrium concept and are neither necessary nor sufficient statistics for bank integration …

estimation. The analysis allows to distinguish between rents that accrue due to single bank lending, rents that accrue due to …