The paper investigates the factors crucial in the locational decisions of multinational German banks in selected … characteristics. Results indicate that FDI by non-banks exerted a strong pull effect on banking FDI flows, as did highly developed …

The paper discusses the question of whether financial participation of multilateral development banks does prompt … private investors to inject more risky equity capital in emerging market banks. Using a theoretical model, it is stipulated …

estimate CE and PE of German banks between 1993 and 2003. Our main findings are threefold. First, after accounting for … systematic differences across banks, mean CE is sensitive to alternative input prices. Second, distortions of mean PE due to … traditional input prices are small. Third, across CE models small cooperative banks located in large western states are identified …

We analyze the stability of efficiency rankings of German universal banks between 1993 and 2004. First, we estimate …

banks and analyze whether efficiency measures yield consistent results according to five criteria between 1993 and 2004 …. Furthermore, our results show that accounting for systematic differences among commercial, cooperative and savings banks is …

Banks continue to differ in many ways, for instance with respect to business models, growth strategies, or financial … multiple technology regimes and group membership probabilities. The latter are conditioned on six bank traits of German banks … and we identify four signifficantly different technology regimes. Only small, retail focused banks exhibit cost …

calculative costs of capital, and a model specification built on the modern understanding of banks as centers of value creation …. The results of the conducted static and dynamic regression analyses show that profitable banks operate with higher … cost leadership for the European banking market. Banks following this strategic position were able to achieve higher excess …