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Regulatory change not seen since the Great Depression swept the U.S. banking industry beginning in the early 1980s and culminated with the Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994. This article examines whether deregulation affected new charter (birth), failure (death), and merger...
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This paper examines the causal effect of bank credit expansion on fertility by exploiting exogenous increases in bank … staggered difference-in-difference methods to estimate the causal effect of credit expansion on fertility rates and maternal age …. I find that credit expansion reduces fertility rates by 7 percent and increases maternal age by 0.37 percent. I also …
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Most bank efficiency studies that use stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) employ each bank's own implicit input price when estimating efficient frontiers. But the theoretical foundation of most studies is a cost minimisation and/ or profit maximisation problem assuming perfect input markets. At...
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German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However, the success of bank mergers remains a continuous matter of debate. In this paper we suggest a taxonomy as how to evaluate post-merger performance on the basis of cost efficiency (CE). We categorise mergers a success that...
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directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state …
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This paper uses clinical evidence to show how the German system of corporate control and governance is both more active and more hostile than has previously been suggested. It provides a complete breakdown of ownership and take-over defence patterns in German listed companies and finds highly...
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Germany's banking sector has been severely hit by the global financial crisis. In a German context as of February, 2009 …Der deutsche Bankensektor ist durch die internationale Finanzkrise schwer getroffen. Auf Deutschland und die im Februar …
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dabei die Entwicklung in den letzten 15 Jahren in den Blick. Frühere Studien für Deutschland weisen darauf hin, dass das … give a bird view of the evolution during the past 15 years. Previous studies on Germany point to a banking system dominated …
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