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German reunification and convergence policies

Oliva, Juan Carlos Martinez - Banca d'Italia - 2009

This paper examines German reunification from its inception. It shows that after the rapid expansion of the early years, former East Germany entered a phase of slow growth that made it impossible to bridge the gap with West Germany. Unemployment remains high, low growth rates appear ingrained,...

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L'abolition des monopoles d'assurances immobilières en Allemagne : Leçons pour la Suisse

UNGERN-STERNBERG, Thomas VON - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2000

We study, what Switzerland can learn from the disappearance of the property insurance monopolies in Germany. We show that the German insurance monopolies did not fight hard enough to defend their interests. a) Most of them knew that they would be bought up by another public insurance company....

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The Captives' End : Lebenszyklusmuster in der Entwicklung der deutschen IT-Outsourcing-Industrie

Kreutter, Peter (contributor); Stadtmann, Georg (contributor) - 2009

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Evolution der IT-Outsourcing-Industrie in Deutschland von 1990 bis 2006 aus Sicht der Industrielebenszyklusforschung. Ein neu erarbeiteter Datensatz wird daraufhin analysiert, inwieweit ein Shakeout vorliegt bzw. in welchen Punkten sich die Entwicklung in einer...

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SME loan pricing and lending relationships in Germany : a new look

Lehmann, Erik; Neuberger, Doris - 1998

Strong lending relationships between banks and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in the bank-based financial system of Germany. So far, they have been mainly described by the notion of an housebank and transactional features of long-term bank-customer relationships. The...

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Geographic and demographic Bank outreach : evidence from Germany's three-pillar banking system

Conrad, Alexander; Neuberger, Doris; Schneider-Reißig, … - 2008

This paper investigates the performance of Germany's three-pillar banking system in providing financial services … demographic branch penetration of the regional savings and cooperative banks. Both banking groups provide a larger branch …, easing access to retail banking services. With their comparatively large branch penetration in less wealthy regions, public …

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The Implications of Latent Technology Regimes for Competition and Efficiency in Banking

Koetter, Michael - 2016

Banks continue to differ in many ways, for instance with respect to business models, growth strategies, or financial health. Neglecting these differences confuses inefficiency with heterogeneity while sub-sample estimation prohibits efficiency comparisons across different samples. We use a...

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Financial sector : proportion of women in top decision-making bodies is increasing more slowly than at the beginning of the decade : equal gender representation is still a long way...

Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 3, pp. 32-45

Over the past year, the proportion of women serving on the executive and supervisory boards of the top 100 largest banks in Germany rose slightly to almost nine and 23 percent, respectively. However, growth has come to a halt in the 60 largest insurance companies: on both executive and...

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Women on high-level boards of banks and insurance companies : growth coming to a standstill on supervisory boards

Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 3, pp. 33-45

The proportion of women on executive boards of the 100 largest banks stagnated at almost nine percent in 2018. In the 60 largest insurance companies, the proportion increased by a good percentage point to almost ten percent. While growth on executive boards has been weakening in past years, it...

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Do better capitalized banks lend less? : long-run panel evidence from Germany

Buch, Claudia M.; Prieto, Esteban - 2012

between the capitalization of the banking sector and bank loans using panel cointegration models. We study the evolution of …

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How do banks screen innovative firms? : Evidence from start-up panel data

Brown, Martin; Degryse, Hans; Höwer, Daniel; Penas, … - 2012

Start-up firms often face difficulties in raising external funds. Employing a unique panel dataset covering 9,715 start-up firms over the period 2007-2009, we find that high-tech startups are less likely to use bank finance and face more difficulties in raising bank finance than low-tech...

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