Recent regulatory efforts aim at lowering the cyclicality of bank lending because of its potential detrimental effects on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs. without a public mandate, controlling for location, size, loan...

Business managers will gain a basic understanding of the complex world of finance with Introduction to Finance: Markets, Investments, and Financial Management, 15th Edition. This text presents a balanced survey of the three main areas of finance: institutions and markets, investments, and...

"Banken, Finanzierung und Unternehmensführung" sind die Themen, die im Zentrum des wissenschaftlichen Interesses und Werkes von Professor Dr. Karl Lohmann stehen. Ihm ist dieser Band als Festschrift zu seinem 65. Geburtstag gewidmet. Karl Lohmann studierte zunächst Mathematik, Physik und...

This book is both a reference book on Germany's financial system and a contribution to the economic debate about its status at the beginning of the twenty-first century. In giving a comprehensive account of the many facets of the system, it covers corporate governance, relationship lending,...