Financial cooperatives play an important role in the financial systems of many countries.
They act as a safe haven for deposits and are major sources of credit for households and …

The establishment of Banking Union represents a major development in European
economic governance and European integration history more generally. Banking Union is …

In 2001, government guarantees for savings banks in Germany were removed following a
lawsuit. We use this natural experiment to examine the effect of government guarantees on …

The wide-ranging varieties of capitalism literature rests on a particular conception of banks
and banking that, the authors argue, no longer reflects the reality of modern financial …

This article discusses the effects of small banks on economic growth. We first theoretically
show that small banks operating at a regional level can spur local economic growth. As …

This article is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the
banking industry. This approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments …

Purpose This paper aims to clarify whether assurance on non-financial corporate social
responsibility (CSR) reports impacts the perceptions and decisions of banks as capital …

This article analyses the impact of loan market competition on the interest rates applied by
euro area banks to loans during the period 1994–2004, using a novel measure of …

This article traces the location of foreign banks in Germany from 1949 to 2006. As suggested
by New Economic Geography models, we find an inverted 'U'-shaped concentration of …

We investigate the consistency of efficiency scores derived with two competing frontier
methods in the financial economics literature: Stochastic Frontier and Data Envelopment …