India is basically an agrarian economy in which around 70% of its population is still residing in rural area. Agriculture sector contributes approx.15.4 percent to the GDP of India, so due to this the development of Agriculture sector is essential. Cooperatives are playing significant role in...

Motivated by the recent discussion of the declining importance of deposits as banks' major source of funding we investigate which factors determine funding costs at local banks. Using a panel data set of more than 800 German local savings and cooperative banks for the period from 1998 to 2004 we...