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The Economics of Regional Demarcation in Banking
Raab, Simone; Welzel, Peter - 2010
Cooperation among savings and cooperative banks was criticized by the European Commission because of potentially anti-competitive effects. In an industrial economics model of banks taking deposits and giving loans we look at regional demarcation as one of such cooperative practices. There are...
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The effects of size on local banks' funding costs
Vins, Oliver; Bloch, Thomas - 2008
Motivated by the recent discussion of the declining importance of deposits as banks' major source of funding we investigate which factors determine funding costs at local banks. Using a panel data set of more than 800 German local savings and cooperative banks for the period from 1998 to 2004 we...
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The economics of regional demarcation in banking
Raab, Simone; Welzel, Peter - 2010
Cooperation among savings and cooperative banks was criticized by the European Commission because of potentially anti-competitive effects. In an industrial economics model of banks taking deposits and giving loans we look at regional demarcation as one of such cooperative practices. There are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271449
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Dezentrale vs. zentrale Finanzsysteme? Wissen und Raum als Distinguierungsfaktoren
Gärtner, Stefan; Flögel, Franz - 2012
hohen Bedeutung von Sparkassen und Genossenschaftsbanken in Deutschland, die als dezentrale Finanzintermediäre gelten können … example no credit crunch can be detected in Germany. Because of these observations, we consider wheth-er the old …. Furthermore, we present empirical facts from Germany underlining our argumentation, discuss a possible application of the outlined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309043
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Deutscher Bankensektor im Umbruch: Sparkassen und Genossenschaftsbanken relativ gut positioniert
Engerer, Hella; Schrooten, Mechthild - In: DIW Wochenbericht 71 (2004) 24, pp. 345-349
Bankstellen reagiert; in Zeiten konjunktureller Schwäche werden Ertragsprobleme mit besonderer Schärfe sichtbar. In Deutschland …
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A 'Friend and Advisor': Management, Auditors, and Confidence in Germany's Credit Cooperatives, 1889-1914
Guinnane, Timothy W. - 2001
cooperative movement that grew up in Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century. These successful cooperatives thrived …
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Trust: A Concept Too Many
Guinnane, Timothy W. - 2005
Research on 'trust' now forms a prominent part of the research agenda in history and the social sciences. Although this research has generated useful insights, the idea of trust has been used so widely and loosely that it risks creating more confusion than clarity. This essay argues that to the...
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Die Netzwerke der Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe und des genossenschaftlichen FinanzVerbundes: Zukunftsperspektiven des Dreisäulensystems
Eim, Alexander; Lamprecht, Dirk; Wipprich, Mark - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 75 (2006) 4, pp. 53-72
Der genossenschaftliche FinanzVerbund und die Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe werden als Netzwerke durch die aus der Förderalismustheorie entlehnten Kriterien für netzwerkorientierte Güter auf verschiedenen Ebenen analysiert. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich unter anderem, dass die Konsolidierung im...
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Banks and innovation: microeconometric evidence on Italian firms
Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - 2006
In this paper we investigate the effect of local banking development on firms' innovative activities, using a rich data set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990's. There is evidence that banking development affects the probability of process innovation, particularly...
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