This paper analyzes the effect of the business cycle on the regulatory capital buffer of German savings and cooperative … fluctuation is stronger for savings banks than for cooperative banks, as, for savings banks, risk-weighted assets fluctuate more …

background and evolution of European Cooperative Banking Groups (ECBGs). Second, we summarize the main reasons for the past … disregard and recent revaluation of the cooperative banking model. Third, we empirically investigate to what extent the … financial performance of ECBGs over recent business cycles is related to the original cooperative characteristics. To this end …

This paper analyzes the effect of the business cycle on the regulatory capital buffer of German savings and cooperative … fluctuation is stronger for savings banks than for cooperative banks, as, for savings banks, risk-weighted assets fluctuate more …