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Corporate Governance und Unternehmenserfolg - Eine empirische Analyse des Zusammenhangs zwischen den Führungs-, Kontroll- und Anreizstrukturen und der Geschäftsentwicklung deutsche...
Steinbrecher, Johannes - 2016
Das internationale Bankensystem stand in den vergangenen Jahren im Fokus des öffentlichen Interesses. Bei der Diskussion möglicher Optionen zur Verbesserung der Finanzsystemstabilität rückt zunehmend die Corporate Governance in Banken in den Fokus. Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht widmet...
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Wind-down of bank trading books: Operational aspects and hidden costs
Santoni, Alessandro; Rossignol, Ghislain; Akhouen, Richard - 2023
The writing of this article predates by several months the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the takeover of Credit Suisse which occurred in March 2023. It does not represent the views of the European Central Bank (ECB) and should not be construed as linked to or an advice for the winding down...
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Bank Management between Shareholders and Regulators
Harm, Christian - 2002
This essay discusses the corporate governance of banks. Bank managers must balance competing demands from shareholders and regulators, which distinguishes banks from most other firms. The essay is structured into three parts. The theoretical section first broadly defines management and its...
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Auf dem Weg zur weltanschaulichen Bekenntnisschule: Das wirtschaftspolitische Leitbild der Hochschule Pforzheim
Maurer, Rainer - 2015
Dieses Diskussionspapier beleuchtet die PRME-Verpflichtung der Hochschule Pforzheim und die daraus resultierenden Probleme (Abschnitt 2) aus vier Perspektiven: der erkenntnistheoretischen (Abschnitt 3), der erfahrungswissenschaftlichen (Abschnitt 4), der juristischen (Abschnitt 5) und einer...
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Governance of Financial Supervisors and its Effects – a Stocktaking Exercise
Quintyn, Marc - 2007
The attention for the governance of financial sector supervisors is of a recent date. The debate has risen to the fore as part of the wider discussion about the appropriate institutional organization of financial supervision and the drive for compliance with international best practices in the...
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Corporate cash holdings: Evidence from Switzerland
Drobetz, Wolfgang; Grüninger, Matthias C. - 2006
This paper investigates the determinants of a broad sample of Swiss non-financial firms' cash holdings between 1995 and 2004. The median Swiss firm holds almost twice as much cash and cash equivalents as the median U.S. or U.K. firm. Our results indicate that asset tangibility and firm size are...
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Institutionelle Investoren und Corporate Governance: Eine empirische Analyse
Steiger, Max - 1998
Eine der herausragenden Entwicklungen auf den internationalen Finanzmarkten in den letzten Jahren ist die Institutionalisierung, d. h. die zunehmende Delegation privater Ersparnisse an professionelle Kapitalanleger - den institutionellen Investoren. Darunter sind private...
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Will the Adoption of Basel II Encourage Increased Bank Merger Activity? Evidence from the United States
Hannan, Timothy H.; Pilloff, Steven J. - 2005
This study presents two tests of the hypothesis that adoption of an internal ratings-based approach to determining minimum capital requirements, proposed as part of the Basel II capital accord, would cause adopting banking organizations to increase their acquisition activity. The study employs...
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Banking Mergers and Acquisitions in the EU: Overview, Assessment and Prospects
Ayadi, Rym; Pujals, Georges - 2005
the impact of M&As in European banking on profitability and efficiency, considering the breakdown between domestic and … diversify the sources of revenues was apparent. The cost and profit efficiency analysis based on 33 bank-to-bank mergers …, confirmed an improvement of cost efficiency and little improvement of profit efficiency for domestic transactions; whereas, no …
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