This paper studies 'Stylised Facts' and 'Determinants' of short-and long-term CDS-spreads of banks. As short …

calculative costs of capital, and a model specification built on the modern understanding of banks as centers of value creation …. The results of the conducted static and dynamic regression analyses show that profitable banks operate with higher … cost leadership for the European banking market. Banks following this strategic position were able to achieve higher excess …

in German banks. The results show, that today the Internet is indeed the most important information source for many types … of information used in the business processes of banks. Especially sources free of charge are not only used widely, they … necessary for the banks to actively incorporate the Internet into the quality management processes. …

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 …

. The results indicate that banks are systematically more likely to be taken over by foreign credit institutions if the … regulatory process is transparent. Particularly large banks seem to be less likely to be taken over by foreign banks if merger …

wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2008. We show that owner controlled banks had higher profits in the years before the … manager-controlled banks. The results are robust to controlling for a wide variety of bank specific, country specific … shareholders may not be socially optimal in banks. …

active banks. For the period from 2002 to 2010, we look at quarterly transaction data (excluding valuation effects) on long …, foreign countries' demand and risk characteristics become more relevant when loans are distributed by banks' affiliates … that rising risk aversion among banks curbed cross-border lending during the financial crisis, especially at a later stage …