Zu Beginn soll der Gedankengang umrissen und seine Aktualität belegt wer­ den. Anmerkungen zur Abgrenzung des Untersuchungsgegenstandes und zur Methode beschließen diesen Abschnitt. 1.1 Idee und Aufbau 1 Die (Außen-)Handelstheorie der 80er Jahre war wesentlich durch die Betrach­ tung vom...

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...

We integrate Basel II (and III) regulations into the industrial organization approach to banking and analyze the interaction between capital adequacy regulation and credit risk transfer with credit default swaps (CDS) including its effect on lending behavior and risk sensitivity of a...