There is ample anecdotal evidence that political influence constitutes a barrier to the integration of the EU banking market. Based on a dataset on the transparency on the supervisory review process of bank mergers in the EU, I estimate the probability that a bank is taken over as a function of...

Kaum ein anderes Geschäftsfeld im deutschen Bankensektor hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren so dynamisch entwickelt wie das Retail-Banking. Ein wesentlicher Grund hierfür ist die zunehmende Präsenz ausländischer Banken in Deutschland. Sie setzen auf innovative Vertriebskonzepte und günstige...

Although there is anecdotal evidence that merger control may constitute a barrier to the integration of European retail banking markets, systematic empirical evidence is missing until now. This paper aims to fill this gap. Based on a unique dataset on the transparency on merger control in the EU...

Although there is anecdotal evidence that merger control may constitute a barrier to the integration of European retail banking markets, systematic empirical evidence is missing until now. This paper aims to fill this gap. Based on a unique dataset on the transparency on merger control in the EU...

There is ample anecdotal evidence that political influence constitutes a barrier to the integration of the EU banking market. Based on a dataset on the transparency on the supervisory review process of bank mergers in the EU, I estimate the probability that a bank is taken over as a function of...

Kaum ein anderes Geschäftsfeld im deutschen Bankensektor hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren so dynamisch entwickelt wie das Retail-Banking. Ein wesentlicher Grund hierfür ist die zunehmende Präsenz ausländischer Banken in Deutschland. Sie setzen auf innovative Vertriebskonzepte und günstige...

This paper examines the international credit portfolios of German banks. We construct a bank-country panel from a unique dataset for a representative set of countries and ask why banks leave diversification opportunities unexploited in some countries. Controlling for bank heterogeneity, we...