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 …

By providing liquidity Hausbanks can support business clients to overcome the social
shutdown and hence cushion the economic impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Germany's …

German corporate governance and corporate law are currently undergoing a major change.
The old “Deutschland AG,” a nationwide network of firms, banks, and directors, is eroding …

International financial centres used to be stable economic clusters held together by the
centripetal forces emanating from physical exchanges. However, given near complete …

We investigate the valuation effects of German firms targeted by hedge funds and by private
equity investors. We argue that both types of investors differ from other blockholders by their …

By lending at a shorter functional distance, regional banks are associated with enhanced
access to soft information compared with large banks, thus allowing superior screening …

Extant research on the circular economy has explored intra-and inter-firm dynamics,
activities and drivers, whilst macro level factors—systemic features of the national economy …

Regional banks have a competitive advantage in that short distances to clients enable the
use of soft information for superior lending decisions. If the ambition of FinTech start‐ups to …

Although small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) contribute considerably to Germany's
carbon emissions, regional savings and cooperative banks− SMEs' most important …

Die letzten Jahrzehnte waren vielerorts durch einen außerordentlichen Anstieg privater
Verschuldung gekennzeichnet, der nicht nur Wachstum und Wohlstand produzierte …