patterns. The paper also suggests an important role for banks in helping predators accumulate, and avoid the disclosure of …

patterns. The paper also suggests an important role for banks in helping predators accumulate, and avoid the disclosure of …

What impact do past experiences have on the expectation formation of banks? This article analyses the risk management … of Germany's largest bank during the 1970 and 1980s. In this period, financial deregulation and globalization increased … the likelihood of credit defaults and forced banks to implement new strategies of risk assessment. The Herstatt failure of …

. The first group of firms are those with bank ownership, suggesting lower costs to banks of obtaining information and …

What impact do past experiences have on the expectation formation of banks? This article analyses the risk management … of Germany's largest bank during the 1970 and 1980s. In this period, financial deregulation and globalization increased … the likelihood of credit defaults and forced banks to implement new strategies of risk assessment. The Herstatt failure of …

analysis reveals that there is limited variety within the business models used by the German cooperative banks. Almost all … cooperative banks concentrate on the lending and deposit-taking business with customers. Within the traditional business model …

intensive interaction between banks and firms, often described as Hausbank relationships. Links between banks and firms include …. Allegedly, these relationships promote investment and improve the performance of firms. Furthermore, German universal banks are …, German universal banks are frequently accused of abusing their influence on firms by exploiting rents and sustaining the …

econometric analysis of firm performance in Germany. Based on a unique panel data set with detailed information on almost 400 … Germany's bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …

creditors play an active role in disciplining. Block purchases have a monitoring role in Belgium and Germany, but not in France …