New liquidity rules phased in under Basel III define the new net stable funding ratio (NSFR) to promote sustainable funding structures at financial institutions. In this paper we analyze characteristics and drivers of NSFR for a sample of 921 Western European banks between 1996 and 2010. We find...

Using a broad bank-level dataset and the GMM estimator technique described by Arellano and Bover (1995), this paper analyzes how bank-specific characteristics, macroeconomic variables, and industry-specific factors affect the profitability of 10,165 commercial banks across 118 countries over the...

The flexibilization of electricity demand and production becomes increasingly important in energy systems with rising shares of fluctuating renewable electricity production. Power-to-heat and cogeneration units, combined with thermal storages, are considered as promising technologies for the...

Die gegenwärtig stattfindenden tief greifenden Umwälzungen in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft verlangen nach einem innovativen Organisations- und Führungskonzept. Es muss sowohl die Anpassungsfähigkeit von Unternehmen an ihre komplexe dynamische Umwelt sicherstellen als auch ihre Fähigkeit,...

This paper empirically examines the determinants of margins for a unique dataset of 8,120 mortgage loans with fixed interest rates of a medium-sized Swiss bank over the period from 2000 to 2009. Our margin determinants include loan-specific factors, as well as external and bank-specific...

Der aus digitalen Prozessdaten der Lkw-Mauterhebung berechnete Lkw-Maut-Fahrleistungsindex liefert frühzeitig Anhaltspunkte zur Entwicklung der Industrieproduktion in Deutschland. Während der Coronakrise wird der Index arbeitstäglich aktualisiert, um möglichst kurzfristige Informationen zu...

The nominal effective exchange rate (EER) of a currency is an index of the tradeweighted average of its bilateral exchange rates vis-à-vis the currencies of selected trading partners, while the real EER is derived by adjusting the nominal index for relative prices or costs. The nominal EER...

The nominal effective exchange rate (EER) of a currency is an index of the tradeweighted average of its bilateral exchange rates vis-à-vis the currencies of selected trading partners, while the real EER is derived by adjusting the nominal index for relative prices or costs. The nominal EER...