-based informal co- and self-regulation through domestic (gentlemen's) agreements underpinned West German bank internationalisation …

The paper explores incentives created by the German Bank Restructuring Act for investors holding assets in systemically … to forego risks by curbing promises of systemic support. Adverse consequences result from the fact that the Bank …

Germany's bank-based financial system provides a high level of financial inclusion, measured by bank outreach and use … implementing the right to a basic bank account with an overdraft facility and protection against attachment, establishing public …

. Furthermore, some of these fi ndings strongly depend on the bank’s legal form, its size and business model, suggesting that both …

a collapse of the banking system. To internalize the public costs, bank levies have been introduced in many countries …. This paper analyzes the German bank levy which was implemented from 2011 till 2014 and its effect on lending rates of …, they are relevant. Firstly, we find that a bank that has to pay the bank levy raises its lending rate by about 0 …

deposit customers. In the past, bank regulation has often been blamed for undermining competition and the functioning of … tries to shed some light on the historical development and current state of bank regulation in Germany. In so doing, it … tries to embed the analysis of bank regulation in a more general industrial organization framework. For every regulated …