The business models of banks are often seen as the result of a variety of simultaneously determined managerial choices … the fuzziness of data and the possibility that some banks may combine features of different business models, the use of … evidence of four distinct banking business models and further distinguish between banks with a clearly defined business model …

large universe of US banks over a complete market cycle and running under a K-Fold Cross validation. A hybrid model which …

We study how information sharing between banks influences the geographical clustering of branches. A spatial oligopoly …. With data on 59,333 branches of 676 banks in 22 countries between 1995 and 2012, we test key model hypotheses. We find that … information sharing increases branch clustering as banks open branches in localities that are new to them but that are already …

Using the German local business tax as a testing ground, we empirically investigate the impact of firm agglomeration on … municipal tax setting behavior. The analysis exploits a rich data source on the population of German firms to construct detailed … exert a positive impact on the jurisdictional tax rate choice which confirms predictions of the theoretical New Economic …