The paper investigates the factors crucial in the locational decisions of multinational German banks in selected … characteristics. Results indicate that FDI by non-banks exerted a strong pull effect on banking FDI flows, as did highly developed …

The paper discusses the question of whether financial participation of multilateral development banks does prompt … private investors to inject more risky equity capital in emerging market banks. Using a theoretical model, it is stipulated …

estimate CE and PE of German banks between 1993 and 2003. Our main findings are threefold. First, after accounting for … systematic differences across banks, mean CE is sensitive to alternative input prices. Second, distortions of mean PE due to … traditional input prices are small. Third, across CE models small cooperative banks located in large western states are identified …

We analyze the stability of efficiency rankings of German universal banks between 1993 and 2004. First, we estimate …

banks and analyze whether efficiency measures yield consistent results according to five criteria between 1993 and 2004 …. Furthermore, our results show that accounting for systematic differences among commercial, cooperative and savings banks is …

Banks continue to differ in many ways, for instance with respect to business models, growth strategies, or financial … multiple technology regimes and group membership probabilities. The latter are conditioned on six bank traits of German banks … and we identify four signifficantly different technology regimes. Only small, retail focused banks exhibit cost …

The paper estimates and compares cost efficiency of domestic and foreign banks in Thailand by using bank-panel data … significant acquisitions by foreign banks after the 1997 financial crisis. The widely used translog functional form specification … domestic and foreign banks are indistinguishable, although the two types of banks focus on different areas of the banking …

Banks often have to determine the credit worthiness, i.e. the ability to repay the loan, of their customers ex …

significant differences between the investors which are linked to banks and those financiers which are not. Although, the bank …

ownership structure of banks. Particular attention is put on current trends in the ownership structure of banks (e. g. sovereign … wealth funds). The paper is based on a new dataset on shareholdings in listed banks in the EU banking sector. The results …