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 …

discrete-choice, multinomial logit deposit service and loan demand functions for each bank and calculate the corresponding …

stronger competition implies significantly lower spreads between bank and market interest rates for most loan market products … bank interest rates, we likewise find that banks tend to price their loans more in accordance with the market in countries … where competitive pressures are stronger. Further, where loan market competition is stronger, we observe larger bank spreads …

-European Bank mergers. In this paper we identify other more fundamental reasons for a limited degree of cross-country integration in …-border bank mergers. The paper derives the impact of different underlying stochastic structures on the optimal structure of cross … regional bank mergers. Imposing a symmetry restriction on the underlying stochastic structure of liquidity shocks we find that …

Die deutsche Bankenbranche ist mit ihrer schlechten Kosteneffizienz im internationalen Wettbewerb weit zurückgefallen …