Despite high hopes for artificial intelligence (AI) to generate powerful innovations across the public sphere backed by its strong prediction skills, Korea has not fully brought the technologies into the public sector in tasks like identifying policy target groups and managing follow-up tasks in...

Taiwan and South Korea are generally considered to be more successful than many others in containing the spread of Covid-19. Three basic and interrelated factors have led to their success so far: efficient governance, high quality of medical research and health care, and a smart use of digital...

Kaum ein anderes Geschäftsfeld im deutschen Bankensektor hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren so dynamisch entwickelt wie das Retail-Banking. Ein wesentlicher Grund hierfür ist die zunehmende Präsenz ausländischer Banken in Deutschland. Sie setzen auf innovative Vertriebskonzepte und günstige...

Die vorliegende Studie schließt an unsere vorangegangene Untersuchung "Bankdienstleistungen in afrikanischen Ländern südlich der Sahara - Herausforderungen und Chancen" aus dem Jahr 2013 an. Ihr Ziel ist es, über die jüngsten Entwicklungen und Trends im Bankensektor in Subsahara-Afrika zu...

The expansion of Spanish banks in Latin America is one of the most important elements of bank internationalisation in recent years. Spanish banks now head the ranking of foreign banks in the region. At first glance, it is paradoxical that at a time of notable progress in the process of European...

This paper aims at analysing the determinants of the recent wave of European banks to Brazil under the context of the recent phase of banking internationalisation. In its first part, it analyses the process of banking internationalisation from both analytical and historical approach. Focusing on...

In the context of the New Economics of Banking, the study analyses crossborder financial consolidation from the point of view of bank strategies. The main hypothesis of the work is that, in the present decade, the Pan-European landscape of the financial sector will be determined by what is...

This essay investigates the relationship between the internationalization of banks, profitability and shareholder value. We argue that in general internationalization has not contributed to profitability, and shareholders have not gained by investing in banks with more international activities....

Accurate measurement of bank risk is a matter of considerable importance for bank regulation and supervision. Current practices in most countries emphasize reliance on financial statement data for assessing banks’ risk. However, the possibility of increased reliance on market-based risk...

Since the beginning of 2017, a paradigm change in international trade policy is observed. While protectionist agendas are on the rise, the EU and Japan signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) on 17 July 2018. It is the EU's most ambitious agreement with any Asian state. The study...