Auf Grundlage eines neuen Datensatzes wird untersucht, warum dezentrale Banken auch in strukturschwachen Regionen, in denen sie wichtige gesamtgesellschaftliche Aufgaben übernehmen, i.d.R. erfolgreich wirtschaften. Sparkassen in demographisch schrumpfenden Regionen und insbesondere in...

Den regionalen Sparkassen und Kreditgenossenschaften gelang es, die Kreditvergabe an Unternehmen in der Finanzkrise zu steigern, während Groß- und Landesbanken Kredite kürzten. Entsprechend wird international die Bedeutung regionaler Banken diskutiert. Der Einführungsband zum Thema „Banken...

Based on the classification of decentralised and centralised banking, this paper investigates diversity in business lending in the UK. Using expert interviews and desk research, the distance between lenders and SMEs in credit decisions for the identified types of lenders is classified. Due to...

When looking at the Spanish banking market through a German lens, the differences between the banking markets in these countries and between decentralised and centralised systems with regard to the SME ]credit decision ]making process become obvious. Despite our hypotheses that Spanish savings...

We are calling for comparisons of banking and banking systems from a spatial perspective. Therefore, this paper develops a classification identifying decentralized and centralized banking according to two characteristics: geographical market orientation (regional vs. supraregional) - to...