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Consolidating the water industry : an analysis of the potential gains from horizontal integration in a conditional efficiency framework

Zschille, Michael - 2015

The German potable water supply industry is regarded highly fragmented, thus preventing efficiency improvements that … of 364 German water utilities in 2006, applying Data Envelopment Analysis, to analyze the potential efficiency gains from … hypothetical mergers between water utilities at the county level. A conditional efficiency framework is applied to account for the …

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German Bond Yields and Debt Supply : Is There a 'Bund Premium'?

Paret, Anne-Charlotte - 2019

Are Bunds special? This paper estimates the 'Bund premium' as the difference in convenience yields between other sovereign safe assets and German government bonds adjusted for sovereign credit risk, liquidity and swap market frictions. A higher premium suggests less substitutability of sovereign...

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German Bank Lending to Industrial and Non-Industrial Countries : Driven by Fundamentals or Different Treatment?

Nestmann, Thorsten - 2016

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International Banking and Cross-Border Effects of Regulation : Lessons from Germany

Ohls, Jana - 2016

We analyze the inward and outward transmission of regulatory changes through German banks' (international) loan portfolio. Overall, our results provide evidence for international spillovers of prudential instruments, these spillovers are however quite heterogeneous between types of banks and can...

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Margins of international banking : is there a productivity Pecking order in banking, too?

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine; Koetter, Michael - 2009

Modern trade theory emphasizes firm-level productivity differentials to explain the cross-border activities of non-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel dataset that contains all German banks'...

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Margins of International Banking : Is There a Productivity Pecking Order in Banking, Too?

Buch, Claudia M. - 2013

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International banking and cross-border effects of regulation : lessons from Germany

Ohls, Jana; Pramor, Marcus; Tonzer, Lena - 2016

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The performance of merging cooperative banks in Germany

Dreusch, Dennis; Reichling, Peter - In: German economic review : GER 26 (2025) 3, pp. 193-227

Motivated by the recent increase in bank mergers, this paper examines the performance of German cooperative banks that merged between 2014 and 2019. We are particularly interested in whether elevated merger rates are due to bank inefficiencies or to challenging policy measures such as...

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Systemic risk in the banking sector : the German model

Burghof, Hans-Peter; Gischer, Horst - In: Vierteljahreshefte zur Arbeits- und … 1 (2024) 2, pp. 155-183

As part of the completion of the European Banking Union, the decision on the organization of institutional and deposit protection is still pending. The mere linking of these two objectives, which are by no means necessarily identical in terms of content, has recently led to heated controversy....

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Effizienz und Wettbewerb im deutschen Bankensektor

Fiorentino, Elisabetta; Herrmann, Heinz - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 1, pp. 114-126

In this paper we review the main findings on competition and efficiency for the German banking sector. Our aim is to … by monopolistic competition and moderate cost efficiency. Competition and efficiency seem to be positively related … changes of the banking system, potentially with consequences for competition and efficiency. …

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