The rise of a crisis-prone banking sector and its political power has received significant attention following the most recent financial crisis. The crisis sparked a growing interest in understanding how and why we have created a world of large, unstable banks. Excessive banking activity arose...

This thesis was written by Jakob Eberl while having been a research assistant at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the University of Munich. It was completed in December 2015 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2016. The...

In der folgenden Arbeit werden vier in sich geschlossene Studien zusammengefasst, die die Beziehung zwischen lokaler finanzieller Entwicklung und wirtschaftlichem Wachstum in Vietnam analysieren. Die lokale finanzielle Entwicklung wird für die erste Studie auf verschiedenen Ebenen gemessen,...