This paper provides an empirical examination of the regional banking structures in China and their effects on entrepreneurial activity. Using a panel of 27 provinces and four directly controlled municipalities from 1997 through 2008, we find that the presence of large banking institutions...

Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit liegt in der Identifikation von Public Corporate Governance-Steuerungsdimensionen und der entsprechenden Ausgestaltungsvarianten für Kantonalbanken im Spannungsfeld zwischen ökonomischer und politischer Steuerung aus Sicht der Kantone als Allein- oder...

1 Paving the Way to the Privatization of Public Financial Services -- 2 Privatization of Public Financial Services and Financial Reforms -- 3 Progress after the Privatization of Public Financial Services and Trends by Type of Financial Institution: Listing of Japan Post Bank and Reorganization...

The paper uses a panel of more than 1m German firms over 2010-2016, to provide the first firm-bank level evidence of local crowding out for a developed economy characterized by low interest rates and fiscal austerity. Our mechanism relies on two structural features of Germany's banking...

The book analyzes the financialization of the Brazilian territory to identify its main actors, technical systems and processes. The work is divided into three parts, which correspond to the three main scales of analysis of the national financial system: 1. the global scale, which defines the...