Recent regulatory efforts aim at lowering the cyclicality of bank lending because of its potential detrimental effects on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs. without a public mandate, controlling for location, size, loan...

Recent regulatory efforts aim at lowering the cyclicality of bank lending because of its potential detrimental effects on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs. without a public mandate, controlling for location, size, loan...

Recent regulatory efforts aim at lowering the cyclicality of bank lending because of ist potential detrimental effects on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs. without a public mandate, controlling for location, size, loan...

1 Einleitung -- 2 Ableitung eines ganzheitlichen Controllingsystems für KMU -- 2.1 Controlling definieren: Vom Leitbild des Controllers zum Controllerbegriff -- 2.2 Anforderungen und Struktur eines ganzheitlichen Controllingsystems -- 2.3 Kernaussagen dieses Kapitels -- 3 Basel II und seine...

This paper empirically examines the role of soft information in the competitive interaction between relationship and transaction banks. Soft information can be interpreted as a private signal about the quality of a firm that is observable to a relationship bank, but not to a transaction bank. We...