period 1998-2005 and discusses the results from the perspective of corporate bank strategy. Methodologically the existing … concentration of the national financial sector have a considerable impact on a bank's financial performance. Both issues proved to …

of individual banks. In particular, we analyse the value relevance of bank cost efficiency and total factor productivity …

This paper reviews the market reaction to bank rescue packages announced in six countries between October 2008 and … shareholders as seen in the movement of bank stock prices. Government interventions benefited creditors at the expense of … shareholders, with bank CDS spreads narrowing around the announcements in all cases. Despite a brief positive reaction, bank stock …

become more important due to the heterogeneity in bank taxation rules across Europe: measuring the tax burden can provide a … taxation between Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the UK, the paper provides estimates for the tax burden and deferred tax … assets in these countries over the years 2006-2014; the impact of differences in taxation on bank profitability is also …

bank size. I combine this data set with information from almost 850,000 companies in these countries. My results show that …

. The closure of the very last local savings bank in 2017 marks the preliminary end of traditional regional banking in the … one stroke a regional and public banking group with a substantial market share by restructuring the Royal Bank of Scotland … that could improve SME finance are the so-called challenger banks, a type of bank unknown in Germany. These banks differ in …

degree of centralisation. Whereas no such bank exists in the UK any longer and real savings banks in Spain have almost …This paper re-visits the state of decentralised banking in Germany, Spain and the UK. The cross-country comparison we … conducted has identified Germany as having the most decentralised banking system, followed by Spain and the UK, as expected. The …