Germany with fragmented banking systems. In Germany, savings banks and cooperative banks taken together are important players …

Patterns in cross-border banking have changed since the global financial crisis. This may affect domestic bank market … modes of cross-border banking impact bank concentration. I use a two- country general equilibrium model with heterogeneous … banking sector on bank market structures. The model suggests that both cross-border lending and bank FDI mitigate …

greater interest rate competition. Lack of bank deposit market power, including through capital account mobility, may lessen …