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 …

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 …

wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2008. We show that owner controlled banks had higher profits in the years before the … manager-controlled banks. The results are robust to controlling for a wide variety of bank specific, country specific … shareholders may not be socially optimal in banks. …

), well-functioning institutions are a key driving force for international bank flows. Specifically, foreign banks invest …

sources of efficiency and productivity of the foreign and domestic banks operating in the Malaysian banking sector. The … attributed to technological progress. The empirical findings suggest that both the domestic and foreign banks have exhibited …

mortgage tax from being levied on borrowers to being levied on banks; (ii) some areas, for historical reasons, were exempt from … smaller number of lending relationships, not working for the lender, or facing less banks in their zip-code, thereby …-full tax pass-through, the tax shift increases banks' risk-taking. More affected banks reduce costly mortgage insurance in case …

equation we model the bank's decision to grant a loan, in the second the probability of default. We confirm that banks provide …