This thesis provides new evidence concerning the way financial intermediaries fulfill the role of distributing capital efficiently to micro and small enterprise and diversify intertemporal risk at different stages of development. Chapter 2 and 3 present results about intertemporal risk sharing...

Diese Arbeit erforscht Effizienzunterschiede regional tätiger Kreditinstitute und zieht hierzu die deutschen Genossenschaftsbanken im Zeitraum 2005–2011 heran. Das verwendete Erfolgsmaß, die Bruttogewinnspanne, liegt bei ländlichen Instituten durchweg höher als bei städtischen. Zwischen...

Infolge der Finanzkrise der Jahre 2007 ff. stellen Forschungsergebnisse immer wieder das Problem des Too Big To Fail heraus. Eine Gruppe vglw. kleiner Banken mit homogenem Geschäftsmodell ist theoretisch jedoch ebenfalls fähig, systemische Risiken freizusetzen. Ein Präventionsmechanismus kann...

Eine Gruppe vglw. kleiner Banken mit homogenem Geschäftsmodell ist theoretisch fähig, systemische Risiken freizusetzen. Ein Präventionsmechanismus kann hierbei Marktdisziplinierung sein, der dann irrelevant erscheint, wenn Kreditinstitute nicht auf allgemeinen Interbankenmärkten aktiv sind....

This study sheds light on risk exposures of cooperative banks in Austria, Germany and Italy. We investigate how major risk elements of banks in these countries have evolved over time, across countries and institutions. Cooperative banks’ exposure to risk is analyzed looking at aggregate risk...

1) Are Italian mutual banks efficient? Evidence from two different cost frontier techniques, by Juan Sergio Lopez, Alessandra Appenini, and Stefania P.S. Rossi. The aim of the first paper is to analyze the efficiency of co-operative banks in Italy. The increasing competition induced by the...

On May 11-12, 2011, SUERF, the Belgian Financial Forum, the Brussels Finance Institute and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) jointly organised the 29th SUERF Colloquium New paradigms in money and finance? The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the...

In this paper, by employing a novel approach, we study the relationship between bank type and small-business lending in a post-transition country. Using a unique dataset on bank branches and firm-level data, we find that local cooperative banks lend more to small businesses than do large...

The structural diversity of the German banking market and the associated variety of business models is thought to have been an important factor in the stability of the German banking market in recent decades. This diversity is manifested both in the three-pillar structure of the German banking...

The contribution of institutionally diversified financial sectors to more sustainable growth and financial stability -in particular the role of effective local banking structures -is not always fully appreciated, whether in the context of development cooperation or in policy discussions in the...