Cooperation among savings and cooperative banks was criticized by the European Commission because of potentially anti-competitive effects. In an industrial economics model of banks taking deposits and giving loans we look at regional demarcation as one of such cooperative practices. There are...

Cooperation among savings and cooperative banks was criticized by the European Commission because of potentially anti-competitive effects. In an industrial economics model of banks taking deposits and giving loans we look at regional demarcation as one of such cooperative practices. There are...

Motivated by the recent discussion of the declining importance of deposits as banks' major source of funding we investigate which factors determine funding costs at local banks. Using a panel data set of more than 800 German local savings and cooperative banks for the period from 1998 to 2004 we...

By lending to SMEs at low geographical distance, banks can realise competitive advantage due to enhanced access to soft information that allows the better screening of firms. As especially regional banks lend at a low distance, the decentralised German banking system is deemed ideal for SME...

Mehr als die Hälfte der Kreise und kreisfreien Städte Deutschlands wird bis 2020 von Einwohnerverlusten und Überalterung betroffen sein. Die Perspektive, die sich hieraus für Finanzdienstleister ergibt, hängt davon ab, ob diese frei beweglich oder lokal gebunden sind. Die frei beweglichen...

Die Angemessenheit von Bankenregulierung wird aktuell in Wissenschaft und Praxis intensiv diskutiert. Bankwirtschaftliche ComplianceVorgaben sind dabei ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Debatte und rücken zunehmend in den Vordergrund. Viele kleine und mittlere Banken, zu denen auch viele...