Vorliegende Studie analysiert die Determinanten der Eigenkapitalrendite deutscher Sparkassen. Die Untersuchung erfolgt auf Basis eines Paneldatensatzes, der die Bilanzdaten sowie regulatorischen Kenngrößen aller Sparkassen in Deutschland zwischen 1999 und 2007 beinhaltet. Die Ergebnisse der...

The aim of this paper is to assess how German savings banks adjust capital and risk under capital regulation. We estimate a modified version of the model developed by Shrieves and Dahl (1992). This paper contributes to the literature in three ways. First, we test the capital buffer theory...

In contrast to earlier field studies, we survey German public savings banks on their management of capital. We find that the most important determinants of the savings banks’ target capital ratio are risk aversion, the desired credit growth and profitability. Savings banks prefer to manage the...