This paper suggests a motive for bank mergers that goes beyond alleged and typically unverifiable scale economies: preemtive resolution of banks ́financial distress. Such "distress mergers" can be a significant motivation for mergers because they can foster reorganizations, realize...

Banking efficiency has been one of the most often studied subjects since the introduction of Data Envelopment Analysis. However, there is no broadly accepted model specification yet. Recently a new model, particularly addressing the ambiguous role of deposits in banking, has been presented by...

The European Commission criticized cooperation among savings and cooperative banks for potentially anti-competitive effects. Using an industrial economics model of banks taking deposits and giving loans, we look at regional demarcation as one of such cooperative practices. We study two adjacent...

Cooperation among savings and cooperative banks was criticized by the European Commission because of potentially anti-competitive effects. In an industrial economics model of banks taking deposits and giving loans we look at regional demarcation as one of such cooperative practices. There are...

We motivate the formulation of market equilibria as a mixed complementarity problem (MCP) in order to bridge the gap between bottom-up energy system models and top-down general equilibrium models for energy policy analysis. Our objective is primarily pedagogic. We first lay out that the MCP...

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...

When looking at the Spanish banking market through a German lens, the differences between the banking markets in these countries and between decentralised and centralised systems with regard to the SME]credit decision]making process become obvious. Despite our hypotheses that Spanish savings...

A comparison of the German banking system with that of the United Kingdom (UK) and Spain shows Germany to be decentralised not only regarding the distribution of banks, but also its financial and political system more generally. Decentralised banks, which are predominantly regional savings banks...