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Konkurrenz belebt das Geschäft? Das Filialgeschäft der Commerzbank in den 1920er- und 1930er- Jahren zwischen Expansion und Konkurrenzdruck
Liedtke, Falk - 2024
strategies in the new branches. The organization of the customer lending business in particular was burdened by arbitrary and … instrumentalization of the customer lending business, whereby an increasing willingness to take risks in lending was used as a tool in … competition with a growing number of rival banks. …
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Competition and bank stability
Goetz, Martin - 2016
Does an increase in competition increase or decrease bank stability? I exploit how the state-specific process of … interstate banking deregulation lowered barriers to entry into urban banking markets and find that greater competition …, such as merger and acquisitions or diversification. Moreover, I find that greater competition reduces banks' nonperforming …
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The evolution of bank boards of directors in New York, 1840-1950
White, Eugene N.; Bodenhorn, Howard - 2014
Contemporary bank governance is criticized for manager-dominated (insider) boards of directors, but from the beginning of the nineteenth century, bank presidents appear also to have operated as chairmen of the boards of directors. However, the managers were constrained by a variety of rules that...
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Market structure and competitive conditions in the Arab GCC banking system
al- Muharrami, Saeed; Matthews, Kent; Khabari, Yusuf - 2006
-statistics suggest that banks in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE operate under perfect competition; banks in Bahrain and Qatar operate … under conditions of monopolistic competition; and we are unable to reject monopolistic competition for the banking market in …
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Competencia en el mercado de préstamos bancarios en Argentina, 2006-2011
González Padilla, Héctor Gustavo - 2018
En este trabajo se analiza la estructura y el grado de competencia en el mercado de préstamos bancarios de Argentina en el período 2006-2011. Para evaluar el grado de competencia se utilizó el modelo de Panzer-Rose y se diferenció entre bancos privados y públicos. Los resultados indican que...
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New Paradigms in Banking, Financial Markets and Regulation?
Balling, Morten; Lierman, Frank; den Spiegel, Freddy Van; … - 2012
On May 11-12, 2011, SUERF, the Belgian Financial Forum, the Brussels Finance Institute and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) jointly organised the 29th SUERF Colloquium New paradigms in money and finance? The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the...
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Der Aktienrückkauf und die Bankenkrise von 1931
Terberger, Eva; Wettberg, Stefanie - 2005
Im Zuge der Analyse jüngerer Finanzkrisen wird auch den Krisen der Vergangenheit vermehrte Aufmerksamkeit zuteil, so auch der deutschen Bankenkrise von 1931. Ein Phänomen, das dabei bisher wenig Beachtung fand, ist der massive Rückkauf eigener Aktien, der im Vorfeld der Krise insbesondere...
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Predicting the past: Understanding the causes of bank distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s
Colvin, Christopher L.; de Jong, Abe; Fliers, Philip T. - 2014
Why do some banks fail in financial crises while others survive? This article answers this question by analysing the effect of the Dutch financial crisis of the 1920s on 142 banks, of which 33 failed. We find that choices of balance sheet composition and product market strategy made in the...
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Mortgage interest rate dispersion in the euro area
Kok, Christoffer; Lichtenberger, Jung-Duk - 2007
Despite the remarkable economic and financial convergence over the last ten years in the euro area, mortgage interest rates still differ across countries. This note presents some stylised facts on the heterogeneity of mortgage interest rates across euro area countries on the basis of the...
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Banking on a religious divide: Accounting for the success of the Netherlands' Raiffeisen cooperatives in the crisis of the 1920s
Colvin, Christopher L. - 2017
This article investigates the impact of the socioreligious segregation of Dutch society on the asset allocation choices of rural bankers and the withdrawal behavior of their depositors during the early 1920s. Results suggest that cooperatively-owned Raiffeisen banks for both Catholic and...
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